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Quotes About Society

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
~ Francis Bacon
I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.
~ David Cross
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
~ William Hazlitt
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
~ James Hillman
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.
~ James Madison
While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.
~ Kshama Sawant
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
~ Albert Einstein
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.
~ Andre Breton
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.
~ Paul A. Baran
The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
~ Ani DiFranco
In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
~ Joseph Stalin
Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
~ Barbara Park
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
~ Abraham Flexner
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
~ Storm Jameson
We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
~ Joseph Stalin
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
~ Victor Hugo
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
~ Richard Hamming
The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.
~ R. D. Laing
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
~ Oscar Wilde