SOCIETY QUOTES VII

quotations about society

Were it not for some small remainders of piety and virtue which are yet left scattered among mankind, human society would in a short space disband and run into confusion, and the earth would grow wild and become a forest.

JOHN TILLOTSON

"The Advantages of Religion to Societies", The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson

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It may be that our society is only passing through a period of ugly transition, but the present evil has its root deep down in the social organization, and springs from a diseased public opinion.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

"A Chapter of Erie", North American Review, July 1869

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Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

KARL MARX

The Communist Manifesto

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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

EMILY BRONTË

Wuthering Heights

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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power or means to coerce others.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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Without some portion of moral virtues, not even thieves can maintain society.

J. HARRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Society is addicted to growth, and that's having terrible consequences for the planet and, increasingly, for us as well. We have to change our collective and individual behavior and give up something we depend on--power over our environment. We must restrain ourselves, like an alcoholic foreswearing booze. That requires honesty and soul-searching.

RICHARD HEINBERG

"Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope", EcoWatch, August 14, 2017


Put me to sleep or take me away
I don't want to be a part of this sick society

NASUM

"Escape"


I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Table Talk

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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one--
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.

ROBERT BROWNING

Luria

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Man delights in society far more than do bees or herds.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Society is the theatre, obligatory for the emancipation and development of the creative power in man. To reject social life is to deprive ourselves of the power of profiting by the experience of the past and the present.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Those that angle in the waters of society catch only carps.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses

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Every society has the criminals it deserves.

EMMA GOLDMAN

Red Emma Speaks

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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.

R. H. TAWNEY

The Acquisitive Society


We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behavior.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

foreword, Sweet Bird of Youth

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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

The Coming of Age

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