1,004 Quotes Regarding Society


Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
Jack Kingston

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Edward Abbey

Society is at odds with itself.
Clint Eastwood

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.
Clint Eastwood

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.
Mitt Romney

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
Mike Tyson

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Bill Gates

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. Ambedkar

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Sigmund Freud

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead