best quotations about
Society |
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Quotations
 | The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 29 likes |
 | A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 24 likes |
 | He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 21 likes |
 | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 11 likes |
 | It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 8 likes |
 | One cannot live in society and be free from society. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 8 likes |
 | Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 8 likes |
 | All progress means war with Society. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 7 likes |
 | We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 5 likes |
 | We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 5 likes |
 | Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
| What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | The modern society is fundamentally insane. — Cornelius Castoriadis, 1922-1997, Greek-French philosopher & social critic 4 likes |
 | Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
 | In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist 4 likes |
 | Society: an inferno of saviors! — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 3 likes |
 | The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
 | Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 3 likes |
 | The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 1 likes |
 | The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | Wise politics is the art of strengthening society and weakening the State. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible, but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
 | Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. — Earl Warren, 1891-1974, American Chief Justice 1 likes |
 | Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
 | Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | The executioner is the cornerstone of society. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 1 likes |
 | No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. — Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903, British philosopher 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | We are not born for ourselves alone. Non nobis solum nati sumus. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 53 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | I did something for the society. Therefore I benefited myself. Πεποίηκά τι κοινωνικώς; ουκούν ωφέλημαι. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations XI,4 5 likes |
