Society Quotes - page 4

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. (Woodrow Wilson)
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Bertolt Brecht
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.
Edward Bernays
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Denis Diderot
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Denis Diderot
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
James Russell Lowell
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
Kamisese Mara
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. (Lewis Mumford)
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Arthur C. Clarke
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
Alisher Usmanov
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
Benjamin Tucker
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
Benjamin Tucker
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Ivan Illich
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. (Karl Marx)
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?
Keith Waterhouse
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honoré de Balzac