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Quotes About Society

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
~ William Golding
People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.
~ Liberace
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
~ Octavio Paz
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
~ Joshua Lederberg
I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
~ Italo Calvino
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.
~ Lance Secretan
The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.
~ Kofi Annan
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
~ Marsilio Ficino
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
~ Wayne Dyer
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
~ Alan Lightman
People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.
~ Kenneth Rogoff
Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.
~ Emily Ratajkowski
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
~ Russell Jacoby
Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.
~ Robert Reich
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
~ Herbert Schiller
One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified.
~ Adolf Hitler
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
~ Stanley Schmidt
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
~ Vladimir Putin