SOCIETY QUOTES V

quotations about society

Look around you: what you have done to society, you have done it first within your soul; one is the image of the other. This dismal wreckage, which is now your world, is the physical form of the treason you committed to your values, to your friends, to your defenders, to your future, to your country, to yourself.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

JAMES BALDWIN

Notes of a Native Son

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

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If you really wish to become a man of society, you must learn first either to be an imbecile or to hold your tongue.

OCTAVE MIRBEAU

The Diary of a Chambermaid

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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Nemesis"

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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

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Those who suffer their happiness to depend on the futile pleasures of society, instead of the resources of their own minds, resemble birds, who, with the power of soaring into the pure regions of the sky, descend, and loiter amid the dust of the earth, at the risk of being snared or destroyed by every vagrant urchin.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


And therefore God created only one single man, not, certainly, that he might be a solitary bereft of all society, but that by this means the unity of society and the bond of concord might be more effectually commended to him, men being bound together not only by similarity of nature, but by family affection. And indeed He did not even create the woman that was to be given him as his wife, as he created the man, but created her out of the man, that the whole human race might derive from one man.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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I'm just the subject of discussion now
The one no-one admires
I'm society's victim
I'm not just sufferin' from paranoia
It's invented by you and them

DISCHARGE

"Society's Victim"


Society is no comfort
To one not sociable.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Cymbeline

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The earth is much over-populated, hence that abominable institution called "Society."

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.

MARGARET THATCHER

interview, Woman's Own, October 31, 1987

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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No entrance without any exit, no possible society without a spacious graveyard.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


Society is a sphere that demands all our energies, and deserves all that it demands.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power or means to coerce others.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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What a glorious time it will be when Society discovers that most of the punishment it inflicts ought not to have been inflicted on its children, but on itself.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Society: The Perfect Mother", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities


I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful.
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance


In society men protect themselves by protecting one another.

EMPEROR FOHI

attributed, Day's Collacon