Society Quotes - page 3

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. (Edmund Burke)
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. View quote
Robert Frost
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. View quote
Washington Irving
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life! and solder of society! View quote
Robert Blair
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. View quote
James Connolly
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. (Betty Friedan)
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. View quote
James Baldwin
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. View quote
James Baldwin
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. View quote
John Dos Passos
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. (Kenneth Grahame)
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. View quote
Nat Turner
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. View quote
George Orwell
All literary men are Red Sox fans-to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. View quote
John Cheever
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. View quote
Bertrand Russell