Quotes About Society

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

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

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

There is no suicide for which all society is not responsible.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.