Society Quotes

National unity, if it is to mean anything in the deeply personal sense must be founded on confidence in one’s own individual identity; out of this can grow respect for that of others and a willingness to share ideas, attitudes, and assumptions. A vigorous policy of multiculturalism will create this initial confidence. It can form […]

Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective […]

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and police.

Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated – too low down, a perfect choke-damp.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Keep not ill men company lest you increase the number.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.