SOCIETY QUOTES VI

quotations about society

No social stability without individual stability.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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In society men protect themselves by protecting one another.

EMPEROR FOHI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful.
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance


That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

ERICH FROMM

The Sane Society

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Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

KARL MARX

The Communist Manifesto

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If you really wish to become a man of society, you must learn first either to be an imbecile or to hold your tongue.

OCTAVE MIRBEAU

The Diary of a Chambermaid

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Society is addicted to growth, and that's having terrible consequences for the planet and, increasingly, for us as well. We have to change our collective and individual behavior and give up something we depend on--power over our environment. We must restrain ourselves, like an alcoholic foreswearing booze. That requires honesty and soul-searching.

RICHARD HEINBERG

"Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope", EcoWatch, August 14, 2017


It may be that our society is only passing through a period of ugly transition, but the present evil has its root deep down in the social organization, and springs from a diseased public opinion.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

"A Chapter of Erie", North American Review, July 1869

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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Justice is the great end of civil society.

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD

speech, March 1885

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Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure -- but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are to be born.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Every society has the criminals it deserves.

EMMA GOLDMAN

Red Emma Speaks

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The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

Points of Rebellion


A participation in rights and advantages forms the bond of political society; an institution prior, in the intention of nature, to the families and individuals from whom it is constituted.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Were it not for some small remainders of piety and virtue which are yet left scattered among mankind, human society would in a short space disband and run into confusion, and the earth would grow wild and become a forest.

JOHN TILLOTSON

"The Advantages of Religion to Societies", The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson

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I'm just the subject of discussion now
The one no-one admires
I'm society's victim
I'm not just sufferin' from paranoia
It's invented by you and them

DISCHARGE

"Society's Victim"


No entrance without any exit, no possible society without a spacious graveyard.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


The earth is much over-populated, hence that abominable institution called "Society."

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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