Society Quotes

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nation is only an individual multiplied

Mark Twain

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

Milton Friedman

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Jack Kemp

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Christopher Hitchens

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Washington Irving

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Robert Sternberg

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Stokely Carmichael

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Samantha Morton

We should try to create the society we would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Paul Krugman

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

David Mamet

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Publilius Syrus

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

Bob Ney

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Warren Mitchell

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

Claude LeviStrauss

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.

Sigmund Freud

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet