Quotes
Quotes about Society
For the moment, society is sick. But you are cured
In a free society, intellectuals are among the under-privileged. What they offer - as schoolteachers, university lecturers, writers - is not greatly wanted. If they threaten to withdraw their labour, nobody is going to be much disturbed. To refuse to publish a volume of free verse or take a class in structural linguistics - that's not like cutting off the power supplies or stopping the buses
Modern war disrupts civilian society and makes it easier to rebuild than to reconstitute
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
No one would talk much in society if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
Accustom to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thine superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...
