952 private quotes tagged society

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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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“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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“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.” — John Lennon

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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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