Society Quotes

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

The 11 million, I think, are never going home, don't need to be sent home, and I would incorporate them into our society by giving them work visas and making them taxpayers.

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

I guess I'm interested in people and society and what we do collectively in the realm of decisions that shape our world. You know, at least on a human level.

Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

I do think in the present state of both the Church and society we have a long way to go toward accepting and loving others that look or act differently than we do.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect of society falls apart.

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.