Society

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Quotes about society.

  • "A person who cannot live in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a beast or a god."
  • "What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees."
  • "Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection."
  • "The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism."
  • I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
  • Has anyone been out in society recently? Cause its shit!
  • "What times! What manners!."
  • "The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice."
  • It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.
  • "It's not sex and drug advice these kids need, so much as help in acquiring a world view, in motivating them to take responsibilty and enabling them to build proper relationships."
  • "The virtues of society are the vices of the saint."
  • "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."
  • "In the affluent society, no sharp distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries."
  • "I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London."
  • "We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life."
  • "The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society."
  • "We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world."
  • "A society made up of the individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic."
  • "When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan."
  • "The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck."
  • "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
  • "As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it."
  • "...they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour..."
  • "Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society."
  • "To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy."
  • I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
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