Society Quotes

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

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

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

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

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

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.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

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.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.