Social Quotes

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

~ Sara Sheridan

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.

~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

~ Charles Stross

The best tactic against evil isn't confront with him, otherwise is to get away from him

~ Válgame

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

~ Charles Dickens

Life is too short to care about what other people says and thinks about you. So live life and give them something to talk about.

~ Marlene Hansen

If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.

~ Denise Riley

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each against each, so brutal and incesssant that it was impossible to develop industry or even agriculture or the arts while that condition persisted. It's this description that culmintes in his famous epithet And the life of man, solitary, poor, brutish, and short. It was a fiction to which he brought to bear another fiction, that of the social contract by which men agree to submit to rules and a presiding authority, surrendering their right to ravage each other for the sake of their own safety. The contract was not a bond of affection or identification, bot a culture or religion binding togetehr a civilization, only a convenience. Men, in his view, as in that of many other European writers of the period, are stark, mechanical creatures, windup soldiers social only by strategy and not by nature...

~ Rebecca Solnit

Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting.

~ Jane Devin

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

~ Owen Hatherley

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.

~ Arthur Chapman

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Somerset House in London where at one time English vital statistics were kept - birth marriage and death records - was known as the egg factory where they hatch 'em match 'em and dispatch 'em.

~ Anonymous

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

~ Jules Renard

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

~ Lin Yutang

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

~ Laurence Durrell

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

~ Ebenezer Elliott

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

~ Sebastien Chamfort

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

~ John F. Kennedy

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.

~ Lord Byron

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

~ Arthur Balfour

To be social is to be forgiving.

~ Robert Frost

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

~ John F. Kennedy

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

~ James Thurber

The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.

~ Charles Merrill Smith

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

~ Jacques Barzun

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

~ Thomas Huxley

Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.

~ Anonymous

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

~ Oscar Wilde

Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

~ Anonymous

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

~ Will Cuppy

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

~ Robert Frost

There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.

~ Hippolyte Taine