Society Quotes

"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual"

"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

"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

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"

Robert Frost, Poet

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest"

A. Whitney Brown, Comedian

"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind"

George Will, Journalist

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

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