Society Quotes

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.