Quotes and Sayings About Society
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
-- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
-- Adam Smith -
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
-- Albert Einstein -
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
-- Alexander Pope -
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
-- Alfred Austin -
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.
-- Alfred Kazin -
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
-- Algernon Sidney -
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
-- Alvin Toffler -
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
-- Anais Nin -
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
-- Andrew Young -
Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
-- Anthony de Jasay -
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
-- Arthur Balfour -
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.
-- Arthur Koestler -
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
-- Arthur Koestler -
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom.
-- Arun Manilal Gandhi -
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.
-- Ashoka -
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
-- Aubrey Menen -
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
-- August Strindberg -
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
-- B. F. Skinner
