952 private quotes tagged society

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

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“The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.” — Richard Dawkins

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

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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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