Quotes About Society

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

Law and justice are designed to keep the peace and create harmonious society, but in many cases the criminal justice system works to the advantage of the crooks and the wealthy, while the poor and the innocent suffer from unfair laws.

Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular society and have no place in government and politics. Siddhartha

Society is invincible—to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity—nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty—into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life—the real you.

Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men.

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Now that I am grown, I think don't take no for an answer is a lesson we teach boys who would be better off learning that no means no.

It was part of their mission as a secret society--as it is part of the mission of most secret societies, actually--to not be entirely secret.

It really bothers me how in books it seems like the only two choices are perfection or self-hatred.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. it can seem saner to give up - but then one goes insane from giving up.

and rich, those girls were like princesses in a fairy tale. They were known throughout Boston, Harvard Yard, and Martha's Vineyard for their cashmere cardigans and grand parties.

Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.