quotations about society
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES
fragment, Phoemissae
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase "social forces". Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.
ANEURIN BEVAN
In Place of Fear
Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.
CHARLES FRANKLIN THWING
The Family: An Historical and Social Study
Society is the mother of us all.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"The Perfect Mother", Reactions and Other Essays
Our societies are changing. It is no longer an atmosphere of repression that weighs upon us, that haunts our streets and our minds. It is the glossy, efficiency-minded atmosphere which is knocking the wind out of us. Literally, euphoria, dumping and acceleration are absorbing all the oxygen from the atmosphere and leaving us like washed-up fish. It is no longer light we are short of, nor cash, but air.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Cool Memories
An individual takes on significance only in his relationship to society as a whole.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Corrino
Society is a hole
It makes me lie to my friends
It's running down my street
With white powers sneakers
On the beautiful beat of black feet
SONIC YOUTH
"Society Is a Hole"
Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect chock-damp.
THOMAS PRUEN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
ROBERT HUGH BENSON
A City Set on a Hill
Society is the master, and man is the servant; and it is entirely according as society proves a good or bad master, whether he turns out a bad or good servant.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY SALA
attributed, Day's Collacon
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning society's values, can force it to change.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Empire Star
Society, To all the leaders it's a game and it's making you insane
Society, Data patterns are supplied proof tap back up all the lies
Hardly alive
Society, Pay your taxes stand in line help them plan for your demise.
PENNYWISE
"Society"
In human society the warmth is mainly at the bottom.
NOEL JACK COUNHIAN
Age
To me the progress of society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the individual, in giving him a consciousness of his own being, and in quickening him to strengthen and elevate his own mind.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Thoughts
Man becomes so accustomed to the society in which he has passed his life, that its institutions, laws, and customs grow upon him until they become a second nature; his feelings, views, and prejudices are so interwoven with its whole mechanism, that he looks upon it as natural, unchangeable, and perfect. So great is his illusion, that the evils he labours under, are attributed to every cause but the true one--the defective organization of society; and while the government, the administration, and even religion are doubted and criticized, the social system, as if it were some thing superior to human imperfection and error, alone commands the respect and reverence of all.
ALBERT BRISBANE
Social Destiny of Man: Or, Association and Reorganization of Industry
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Time Enough for Love
Necessity
The inexact inquiry
Profitable (pure) madness
Society
The abstract variety
Democracy
A spaceship
It's a spaceship
MOUSE ON MARS
"Spaceship"
Man is a social being, and needs society and laws regulating social intercourse between states, tribes, and nations, as much as between individuals.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD
William H. Seward's Travels Around the World
The greatest benefactor to society is not he who serves it by single acts, but whose general character is the manifestation of a higher life and spirit than pervades the mass.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Thoughts