Society Quotes

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.

William T. Davis

Tis the final conflict! Let each stand in his place! The international working class shall be the human race!

The Internationale

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

Thorstein Veblen

I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer the beer stronger the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

James Fenimore Cooper

He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.

Man is a social animal.

Seneca

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

William Thackeray

To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

To be social is to be forgiving.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.

Charles Merrill Smith

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Alfred North Whitehead

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.

Anonymous

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Anonymous

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Hippolyte Taine

Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to act the latter become uncouth brutes.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

G.K. Chesterton

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Henry David Thoreau

Somerset House in London where at one time English vital statistics were kept - birth marriage and death records - was known as the egg factory "where they hatch 'em match 'em and dispatch 'em."

Anonymous

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

Laurence Durrell

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

Ebenezer Elliott

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Sebastien Chamfort

Fear is a society induced state of confusion.

You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society.

To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by begetting them, but set them loose in the world like wild dogs, beyond our control and often beyond our knowledge.

Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society.

The more we realize that we are only separated by the membrane of our own limiting and dividing beliefs, the more sand we remove, ultimately uncovering the deep and direct roots between us. Only then is society truly united, when we realize we are a whole, composed of cohesive parts.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

Fakeer Ishavardas

Truth can come to liberate, but not the truth you were taught. Where you always sought refuge.You only met lies since you were born. You were always among the good, although humanity was evil itself. Will that ever make some sense? None and all. Ideally, nothing.

Robert Neil Fleischer

A poet’s words are like mortar to the bricks of society.

Jason E. Hodges

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!

Ramana Pemmaraju

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.

The human spirit and self-esteem are compromised when you lay down your arms to the pressures of society in a rat race.

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

Fakeer Ishavardas

Humans as a whole are but an unwholesome hole with a sorry ass. In short, a**holes.

Fakeer Ishavardas

If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world.

Fakeer Ishavardas

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