Society Quotes

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. (Confucius)
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. View quote
George Orwell
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. View quote
Aristotle
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. View quote
Carl Sagan
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. View quote
Mark Twain
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Women are the real architects of society. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
One cannot live in society and be free from society. (Vladimir Lenin)
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. View quote
Margaret Mead
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. View quote
Emil Cioran
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. View quote
George Santayana
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. View quote
William Ralph Inge
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. (George Soros)
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. View quote
Robert Frost
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality. View quote
Talcott Parsons