SOCIETY QUOTES V

quotations about society

Society is no comfort
To one not sociable.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Cymbeline

Tags: William Shakespeare


Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Nemesis"

Tags: D. H. Lawrence


Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

Tags: Henry David Thoreau


Gold is the key to society; but poverty its barrier.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

Tags: William Scott Downey


Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Society,
Pay your taxes stand in line help them plan for your demise.

PENNYWISE

"Society"


How to gain the advantages of society, without at the same time losing ourselves, is a question of no slight difficulty. The wise man often follows the crowd at a little distance, in order that he may not come suddenly upon it, nor become entangled with it, and that he may with some means of amusement maintain a clear and quiet pathway.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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At present society is composed, not so much of men and women, as of the raw material of men and women, which it will be the office of a higher civilization to work up into the forms of a truer manhood and womanhood.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

speech on the occasion of the 24th Anniversary of Emancipation in Washington, D.C., "Southern Barbarism", April 16, 1888

Tags: Frederick Douglass


Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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There is a society in the deepest solitude.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI

Literary Character of Men of Genius

Tags: Isaac D'Israeli


They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.

MARGARET THATCHER

interview, Woman's Own, October 31, 1987

Tags: Margaret Thatcher


Parts of a machine
Modern day slavery
Dehumanizing control
Wasted lives fading
Sick Society System
Sick Society System
System of survival

CRIMINAL

"S.S.S."


Without some portion of moral virtues, not even thieves can maintain society.

J. HARRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Those who suffer their happiness to depend on the futile pleasures of society, instead of the resources of their own minds, resemble birds, who, with the power of soaring into the pure regions of the sky, descend, and loiter amid the dust of the earth, at the risk of being snared or destroyed by every vagrant urchin.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


And therefore God created only one single man, not, certainly, that he might be a solitary bereft of all society, but that by this means the unity of society and the bond of concord might be more effectually commended to him, men being bound together not only by similarity of nature, but by family affection. And indeed He did not even create the woman that was to be given him as his wife, as he created the man, but created her out of the man, that the whole human race might derive from one man.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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Society is the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theatre, the spur and the crown of ambition, and the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit.

WENDELL PHILLIPS

Fraternity Lecture, October 4, 1859

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No social stability without individual stability.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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The man who lives alone is apt to forget the individuality of others; the man who lives in society is apt to forget his own.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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In society men protect themselves by protecting one another.

EMPEROR FOHI

attributed, Day's Collacon