952 private quotes tagged society

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” — Robert Frost

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“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Society therefore is an ancient as the world.” — Voltaire

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“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.” — Robert Frost

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“Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.” — Robert Kennedy

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“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.” — David Ogilvy

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“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” — John Lennon

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“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.” — Lord Byron

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“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.” — George Orwell

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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” — Ayn Rand

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“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” — Howard Zinn

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“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” — Erich Fromm

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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.” — Edmund Burke

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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan

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“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” — Angela Davis

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