952 private quotes tagged society

“We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.” — R. D. Laing

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“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.” — Jerry Garcia

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“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?” — Honore de Balzac

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“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.” — Honore de Balzac

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“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.” — John Stuart Mill

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“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” — John Locke

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“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.” — John Burroughs

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“Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.” — Neil Armstrong

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“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.” — Christopher Lasch

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“There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“I think the first duty of society is justice.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.” — Robert W. Service

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“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.” — William S. Burroughs

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“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.” — George Santayana

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“He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.” — Theodor Adorno

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“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.” — John Ruskin

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“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.” — Bashar al-Assad

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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.” — Edward Bernays

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“Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.” — Busta Rhymes

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