Society Quotes

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Robert Carlyle

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

Adam Carolla

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Charles R. Swindoll

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche

She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.

Orson Scott Card

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Voltaire

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.

Thomas Carlyle

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Peter Medawar

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

Sam Donaldson

A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Orson Scott Card

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Frances O'Grady

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Hugh Kingsmill

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Herbert Read

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

Bjorn Lomborg

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Alfred Austin