Society Quotes

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

The needs of society determine its ethics.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.