Society Quotes

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.