1,004 Quotes Regarding Society


A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

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

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma Gandhi

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

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

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.
Tupac Shakur

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.
Aristotle

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson