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Society Quotes


No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Kenneth L. Pike
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Alvin Toffler
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Max Cannon
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Thomas Szasz
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

George Orwell
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Hugh Kingsmill
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Randolph Bourne
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Bill Vaughan
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Erich Fromm
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Orson Welles
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

A. J. Liebling
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

Abbie Hoffman
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James A. Baldwin