Society Quotes

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Margaret Oliphant

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Christiane Amanpour

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Karl Marx

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

Curt Schilling

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Timothy Leary

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Peter L. Berger

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Iain Duncan Smith

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

Abbe Pierre

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Abu Bakr

Women are the real architects of society.

Cher

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

Peter Guber

America's a very traumatized society.

Alanis Morissette

The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Henry Adams