SOCIETY QUOTES VII

quotations about society

I may travel, perhaps. So you have got to like society, and would enjoy it, you think? For me, I always hated it--have put up with it these six or seven years past, lest by foregoing it I should let some unknown good escape me, in the true time of it, and only discover my fault when too late; and now that I have done most of what is to be done, any lodge in a garden of cucumbers for me!

ROBERT BROWNING

letter to Elizabeth Barrett, March 12, 1845

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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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Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

TIMOTHY LEARY

The Politics of Ecstasy

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Put me to sleep or take me away
I don't want to be a part of this sick society

NASUM

"Escape"


Society is the master, and man is the servant; and it is entirely according as society proves a good or bad master, whether he turns out a bad or good servant.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY SALA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

EURIPIDES

fragment, Phoemissae

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

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


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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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"


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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When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.

M. E. THOMAS

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight


Through mistaken indulgence Society leads us to develop faults of character. These faults of character often lead us to grave errors. Then Society tries to correct those errors. The means society employs are sometimes far more severe than wise. They do far more harm than good. And even where Society, by the usual weapon of punishment, may correct or check or even destroy those errors, the cause of the errors remains. And the cause makes more errors. Even while Society is in the act of dealing with some of the more grave errors among her children, the cause is at work making more errors, perhaps as grave, perhaps graver.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Society: The Perfect Mother", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities


Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

VOLTAIRE

A Philosophical Dictionary

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As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

R. H. TAWNEY

The Acquisitive Society


Society is a chain of obligations, and its links must support each other;
The branch cannot but wither, that is cut from the parent vine.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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To me the progress of society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the individual, in giving him a consciousness of his own being, and in quickening him to strengthen and elevate his own mind.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts


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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Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it.

MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS

The Monk