Society Quotes
+30Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.
- Francis Bacon
+30A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.
- Anonymous
+28Man was formed for society.
- Francis Bacon
+28The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
- Anonymous
+26Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated–too low down, a perfect choke damp.
- Anon
+26Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
- Anonymous
+22Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
- Anonymous
+22No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
- Anonymous
+20Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
- Charles Lamb
+20Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
- Anonymous
+18Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
- Anonymous
+16Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
- Anonymous
+14Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
- Anonymous
+12People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
- Anonymous
+6Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
- Anonymous
+1A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
- Greek Proverb
+1Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
- John Lahr
+1Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
- Timothy Leary
+1The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
- Jean Bruyere
+1A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
+1Society than solitude is worse And man to man is still the greatest curse.
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
+1It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
+1Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
- Randolph Bourne
+1Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
- Ludwig Mises
+1Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner’s success as a means for the attainment of his own.
- Ludwig Mises
+1Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food.
- Roch Nicholas
