SOCIETY QUOTES VIII

quotations about society


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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
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Those that angle in the waters of society catch only carps.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

STEPHEN KING

The Stand

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In the affluent society, no sharp distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

The Affluent Society

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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"


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


Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.

CHARLES FRANKLIN THWING

The Family: An Historical and Social Study

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No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Elizabeth Hitchener, July 25, 1811

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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


He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Society is the theatre, obligatory for the emancipation and development of the creative power in man. To reject social life is to deprive ourselves of the power of profiting by the experience of the past and the present.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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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


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


I know, sir, that the people talk about the liberty of nature, and assert, that we divest ourselves of a portion of it, when we enter into society. This is declamation against matter of fact. We cannot live without society; and as to liberty, how can I be said to enjoy that which another may take from me, when he pleases. The liberty of one depends not so much on the removal of all restraint from him, as on the due restraint upon the liberty of others. Without such restraint, there can be no liberty. Liberty is so far from being endangered or destroyed by this, that it is extended and secured. For I said, that we do not enjoy that which another may take from us. But civil liberty cannot be taken from us, when any one may please to invade it; for we have the strength of the society on our side.

FISHER AMES

speech in the Convention of Massachusetts, on Biennial Elections, January 1788


When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.

JOHN STUART MILL

Dissertations and Discussions

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Man delights in society far more than do bees or herds.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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Our societies are changing. It is no longer an atmosphere of repression that weighs upon us, that haunts our streets and our minds. It is the glossy, efficiency-minded atmosphere which is knocking the wind out of us. Literally, euphoria, dumping and acceleration are absorbing all the oxygen from the atmosphere and leaving us like washed-up fish. It is no longer light we are short of, nor cash, but air.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Cool Memories

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Men living always in groups cooperate like the organs in an organism. Their actions have a common impulse and a common end. Their desires and opinions bear the common stamp of an impersonal direction. Much of their life is common to all. The roads, market-places and temples, are for each and all. The experiences, the dogmas, and the doctrines are for each and all. Customs arise, and are formulated in laws, the restraint of all. The customs, born of the circumstances, immanent in the social conditions, are consciously extricated and prescribed as the rules of life; each new generation is born in this social medium, and has to adapt itself to the established forms.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Problems of Life and Mind

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