I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Society Quotes
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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.
My mind rejects the whole social order and Christianity – home, the recognized virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines… I cannot enter the social order except as a vagabond.
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products […]
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change of the status quo… This is a multi-racial nation where all groups are dependent on each other… There is no […]
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
