quotations about society
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
L. E. LANDON
attributed, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB
Captain Starkey
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
MARGARET MITCHELL
Gone with the Wind
Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.
MARCEL PROUST
Within a Budding Grove
I was raised in this society so there's no way
You can expect me to be a perfect person
2PAC
"Pac's Theme (Interlude)"
Take a man, place him outside of all society, leave him to his own inspirations; he will do a little more than will an animal born at the same time, but he will not advance far in the study of the world and the appropriation of material for his use. He will begin like the first man, by taking the first step in civilization. If men were to succeed one another in isolation, each would be learning the alphabet of experimental truths, and none would be able to put the letters together into practical rules.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity
Men are limbs of one another and members of one great body, and if one part suffer all suffer with it.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Society is now one polish'd horde,
Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Won't you carry me away
After endless ballroom dreams
With you starting every day
We'll be high society
We'll drink Chardonnay through the day
'Cause we say so
A silk lapel suits you well baby you know
With you each and every day
We'll be high society
BETTY WHO
"High Society"
It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.
CARLETON S. COON
The Story of Man
We do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN W. WATTS
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Architects of Fate
I know I'm artificial
But don't put the blame on me
I was reared with appliances
In a consumer society
X-RAY SPEX
"Art-i-ficial"
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
ADAM SMITH
Wealth of Nations
A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
"Ziggy Stardust", New Humanist, May 31, 2007
We obey the laws of society because they are the laws of virtue.
FISHER AMES
speech in the U. S. House of Representatives, April 28, 1796
All societies end up wearing masks.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
America
Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
EDDIE VEDDER
"Society"
It is said that, in forming civil society, the individual surrenders a part of his rights. It would be more proper to say that he adopts new modes of securing them.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Thoughts
Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my children.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The Excursion