Society Quotes

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

It is not a fragrant world.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.