SOCIETY QUOTES V

quotations about society

Justice is the great end of civil society.

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD

speech, March 1885

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Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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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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Without some portion of moral virtues, not even thieves can maintain society.

J. HARRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


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


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

PENNYWISE

"Society"


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

ROGER MIRET & THE DISASTERS

"The Boys"


Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure -- but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are to be born.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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How to gain the advantages of society, without at the same time losing ourselves, is a question of no slight difficulty. The wise man often follows the crowd at a little distance, in order that he may not come suddenly upon it, nor become entangled with it, and that he may with some means of amusement maintain a clear and quiet pathway.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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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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There is a society in the deepest solitude.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI

Literary Character of Men of Genius

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No social stability without individual stability.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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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


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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Society makes. Then society rewards and punishes her handiwork.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Prisoners of Prejudice", Reactions and Other Essays

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Parts of a machine
Modern day slavery
Dehumanizing control
Wasted lives fading
Sick Society System
Sick Society System
System of survival

CRIMINAL

"S.S.S."


No more pay and lots of leisure
In this low society
Low society
I'm just doing what I can
In this low society
But I'm an incidental man

HEAVEN 17

"Low Society"


I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

EMILY BRONTË

Wuthering Heights

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