SOCIETY QUOTES V

quotations about society

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


Those who suffer their happiness to depend on the futile pleasures of society, instead of the resources of their own minds, resemble birds, who, with the power of soaring into the pure regions of the sky, descend, and loiter amid the dust of the earth, at the risk of being snared or destroyed by every vagrant urchin.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


At present society is composed, not so much of men and women, as of the raw material of men and women, which it will be the office of a higher civilization to work up into the forms of a truer manhood and womanhood.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.

MARGARET THATCHER

interview, Woman's Own, October 31, 1987

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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

JAMES BALDWIN

Notes of a Native Son

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Look around you: what you have done to society, you have done it first within your soul; one is the image of the other. This dismal wreckage, which is now your world, is the physical form of the treason you committed to your values, to your friends, to your defenders, to your future, to your country, to yourself.

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

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Society,
Pay your taxes stand in line help them plan for your demise.

PENNYWISE

"Society"


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


There is a society in the deepest solitude.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI

Literary Character of Men of Genius

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Society's failed us, Society's gonna pay
One way or another they'll feel our pain

ROGER MIRET & THE DISASTERS

"The Boys"


The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power or means to coerce others.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Nemesis"

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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"


Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


The man who lives alone is apt to forget the individuality of others; the man who lives in society is apt to forget his own.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Society is the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theatre, the spur and the crown of ambition, and the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit.

WENDELL PHILLIPS

Fraternity Lecture, October 4, 1859

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

OSCAR WILDE

An Ideal Husband

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