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.

• 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.

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

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