952 private quotes tagged society

“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.” — Nelson Mandela

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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” — Karl Marx

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“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” — Karl Marx

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

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

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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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“Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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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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