Quotes About Society

Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Monica was the first woman in town to bob her hair," said Miss Burgess. "And she was the first woman, at least the first respectable one, to smoke in public." "When you see her," continued Miss Claudia, "tell her I think she stepped on my train because Colonel Glass had danced with me three times that evening, and hadn't danced with her once.

all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ?

The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice.

When anything and everything goes, there are no real values, no definite right and wrong.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually 'blocking' communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.

culture – the collectively shared meaning

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

black slavery was basic and integral to the entire phenomenon we call "America." This often hidden or disguised truth ultimately involves the profound contradiction of a free society that was made possible by black slave labor.

For Southerners, a white skin was the distinguishing badge of mind and intellect. Black skin was the sign that a given people had been providentially designed to serve as menial laborers, as what Hammond called the "mudsill" class necessary to support every society.

If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in vain but are outraged if they see a pregnant woman smoking, then you are living in a world that values the worldly more than the divine.