104 result(s) for Society Quotes.
"In every society, the definition of what is immoral is the behavior of whoever is personally unreachable."
"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule."
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
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"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self."
"Society is now one polish'd horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."
"The only way to deal with a unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"I would rather be a rebel than a slave."
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
"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."
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."
"Society is like a pot of melted crayons. It’s diversity that brings out the vibrance."
"In every society, the value of life is based on economic value."
"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
"It is in society as it is in solitudes: we know the world."
"Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it in hiding."
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"A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not... of superiority but of weakness."
"Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real."
"There is no maxim in my opinion which is more generally admitted, than that we should endeavor to be as dull as our neighbors."
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."
"A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living."
"Society is like fudge—mostly sweet with a few nuts."
"The first step to be taken by a society is for the individuals in it to know one another well."
"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself'. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."
"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the nature of man than by a concern with the nature of society."
"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on."
"We rise by lifting others."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"Treat others as you would like to be treated."
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."
"The time is always right to do what is right."
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
"The first civil right of a human being is that of the right of property."
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers, it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."
"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license."
"People who live in society have learned how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends."
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
"The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis."
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
"The only way to deal with all the world's evil is to create a place of moral purity within oneself."
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."
"The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its weakest members."
"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."
"Society is not only defined by what it creates but by what it refuses to destroy."
"The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are at the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."
"A compassionate society is one that ensures that there is a safety net for those who have run out of luck."
"A society is judged by how well it treats its prisoners."
"The best index to a person's character is how they treat people who can't do them any good, and how they treat people who can't fight back."
"A healthy society is one that takes care of its vulnerable members."
"Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater."
"In every society, some men are born to rule, and some to advise."
"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber."
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world, there are only individuals."
"Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member."
"To know what is right and not do it is the want of courage."
"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens."
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion."
"Society is unity in diversity."
"A society grows great when people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"The first duty of society is justice."
"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"The power of the people is stronger than the people in power."
"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
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