Society Quotes

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.

He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company.

We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but there are few who will face a hostile society.

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

Society can transport money from the rich to the poor only in a leaky bucket.

Apart from an outside supernatural assistance, society goes from bad to worse until deterioration is universal. Not evolution but devolution is the law of man without God… With all of our boasted mechanical civilization, a day might come when our modern towers of Babel would be as forgotten as the first, when Americans would cease […]

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.