Quotes
Quotes about Society
No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweetener of life! and solder of society!
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,
Unfriendly to society's chief joys:
Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.
There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble living and the noble dead.
Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my children.
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Society is now one polish'd horde,
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good.
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories.
The very mudsills of society.... We call them slaves.... But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal.
A town that boasts inhabitants like me
Can have no lack of good society.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.
The very mudsills of society.... We call them slaves.... But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal.
Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.
No society, whether human or animal, can exist without communication.
A highly sophisticated society will always be tempted to accord language a reality of its own
Anthony Burgess A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Ah, how society feels itself threatened by the human senses!
