Quotes about Society

“To be social is to be forgiving.”

“Society is a hospital of incurables.”

“Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.”

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”

“The happiness of society is the end of government.”

“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”

“A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

“Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.”

“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”

“Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.”

“What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?”

“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”

“You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.”

“Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.”

“Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.”

“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.”

“Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.”

“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”

“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.”

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.”

“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”

“You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.”

“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”

“No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.”

“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.”

“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”

“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”

“The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.”

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”