Society Quotes and Sayings

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

Man was formed for society.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon.

Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated–too low down, a perfect choke-damp.

The clichés of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Society is composed of two great classes – those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Progress cannot be organized.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Society does not punish those who sin, but those who sin and conceal not cleverly.

Society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself – at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.