quotations about society
Necessity
The inexact inquiry
Profitable (pure) madness
Society
The abstract variety
Democracy
A spaceship
It's a spaceship
MOUSE ON MARS
"Spaceship"
Society, like the sea, is in perpetual movement. The nations, like the ages, have their day of life and death.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
Everybody close your eyes
(Close your eyes)
You can see the world tonight
Society is fine
And there's enough to eat
CHRISETTE MICHELE
"Fairy Tales & Castles, Pt. 2"
We are too inattentive or too much occupied with ourselves to understand each other. Whoever has seen masks at a ball dance amicably together, and hold hands without knowing each other, to part the moment after to see each other no more, nor to regret each other, can form some idea of society.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may send for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills
Society is a long series of uprising ridges which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose; wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Lilliputian mole-hill.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
attributed, Day's Collacon