SOCIETY QUOTES V

quotations about society

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

JAMES BALDWIN

Notes of a Native Son

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Society is the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theatre, the spur and the crown of ambition, and the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit.

WENDELL PHILLIPS

Fraternity Lecture, October 4, 1859

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What's society built on
It's built on, built on bluff,
Built on bluff, built on trust,
What's society built on
It's built on, built on words,
Built on words, built on work

STEREOLAB

"Motoroller Scalatron"


And therefore God created only one single man, not, certainly, that he might be a solitary bereft of all society, but that by this means the unity of society and the bond of concord might be more effectually commended to him, men being bound together not only by similarity of nature, but by family affection. And indeed He did not even create the woman that was to be given him as his wife, as he created the man, but created her out of the man, that the whole human race might derive from one man.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Gold is the key to society; but poverty its barrier.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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How to gain the advantages of society, without at the same time losing ourselves, is a question of no slight difficulty. The wise man often follows the crowd at a little distance, in order that he may not come suddenly upon it, nor become entangled with it, and that he may with some means of amusement maintain a clear and quiet pathway.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.

MARGARET THATCHER

interview, Woman's Own, October 31, 1987

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Society,
Pay your taxes stand in line help them plan for your demise.

PENNYWISE

"Society"


Those who suffer their happiness to depend on the futile pleasures of society, instead of the resources of their own minds, resemble birds, who, with the power of soaring into the pure regions of the sky, descend, and loiter amid the dust of the earth, at the risk of being snared or destroyed by every vagrant urchin.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Nemesis"

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Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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The man who lives alone is apt to forget the individuality of others; the man who lives in society is apt to forget his own.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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There is a society in the deepest solitude.

ISAAC D'ISRAELI

Literary Character of Men of Genius

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I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful.
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance


If you really wish to become a man of society, you must learn first either to be an imbecile or to hold your tongue.

OCTAVE MIRBEAU

The Diary of a Chambermaid

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In society men protect themselves by protecting one another.

EMPEROR FOHI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Society is a chain of obligations, and its links must support each other;
The branch cannot but wither, that is cut from the parent vine.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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