Society Quotes

"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society"

"The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers"

Kevin Smith, Director

"Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system"

Norm Coleman, Politician

"Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"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, Author

"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Society lives by faith, and develops by science"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Society therefore is an ancient as the world"

Voltaire, Writer

"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society"

Mark Twain, Author

"The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this"

Mark Twain, Author

"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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, President

"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

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