Society Quotes

In the room of holding out an example for imitation, [the nobility] give only a warning to the lower classes of the people, who are taught to despise the boasted pre-eminence of birth, when attached to the meanest actions and most unwarrantable pursuits; and from hence proceeds all the licentiousness and spirit of equality that causes general disturbance.

~ Eliza Parsons

Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that.

~ Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time.

~ Sally Magnusson

Everyone belongs to a society, whether he wishes it or not, whether he chooses it or not, whether he contributes constructively to its development or does the reverse. Community, on the contrary, implies one's relating one's self to others affirmatively and responsibly. Community in the economic sense implies an emphasis on the social values and functions of work. Community in the psychological sense involves the individual's relating himself to others in love as well as creativity.

~ Rollo May

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.

~ Anthony Liccione

What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not been fully pulled up from society. Wherever, whenever he went, the color of his skin set the boundaries of what he could achieve, and there was very little--if any--recourse for finding a way around it.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Drugs are also a part of school life in particular marijuana. Alcohol beverages, prostitution - not so much on campus - but that is a way of survival for some young women and young men. These are societal ills.

~ Drexel Deal

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

~ Sebastian Junger

Every one belongs to every one else.

~ Aldous Huxley

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

~ Kōbō Abe

If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers on. Otherwise if you go walking around the streets without trousers, no matter how new your shoes and how elegant your coat, it’s enough to raise a big hue and cry. Enlightened society is a kind of trouser society.

~ Kōbō Abe

Clinging to one’s outward appearance interferes with living.

~ Kōbō Abe

These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing the convenience of instalment buying. But I am that box man. A representative of anti-instalmentism.

~ Kōbō Abe

I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.

~ Kōbō Abe

I wonder how can I ever work for an organization that pollutes the world and refuses to clean up and sometimes even own up. And, I wonder how on earth can I work for an organization where one of my fellow classmates wouldn’t get the same paycheck and the same perks and the same benefits as I would simply because she is a girl.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Victims support is everybodies responsibility, let's always lend a helping hand.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.

~ Minae Mizumura

Justice is a necessity for a fair and free society.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

~ Virginia Woolf

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

~ John Fowles

My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

~ Raif Badawi

It is so hard to stay afloat in a world that just wants to drown you.

~ Schuyler Peck

A woman, she had provoked this horror; a woman, she shouldh ave known how to deal with it. It was immesley to her discredit, sexually, to stand there dumb. One said - what did one say? - Oh, Mr. Ramsay! Dear Mr. Ramsay! That was what that kind old lady who sketched, Mrs. Beckwith, would have said instantly, and rightly. But, no. They stood there, isolated from the rest of the world. His immesnse self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and and spread itself in pools at her feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she should get wet.

~ Virginia Woolf

Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core, he is one who follows his Tao.

~ Osho

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

~ Susan Wiggs

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?

~ Chris Cleave

Accountability in police can best be done in an assembly where everyone concerned will come and share their views and opinion to the activities of the police because there's a whole lot of excesses in the police force that must be corrected for effective policing and better society's trust on them.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.

~ Amy Jacques-Garvey

Caterpillars chew their way through ecosystems leaving a path of destruction as they get fatter and fatter. When they finally fall asleep and a chrysalis forms around them, tiny new imaginal cells, as biologists call them, begin to take form within their bodies. The caterpillar’s immune system fights these new cells as though they were foreign intruders, and only when they crop up in greater numbers and link themselves together are they strong enough to survive. Then the caterpillar’s immune system fails and its body dissolves into a nutritive soup which the new cells recycle into their developing butterfly. The caterpillar is a necessary stage but becomes unsustainable once its job is done. There is no point in being angry with it and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task is to focus on building the butterfly, the success of which depends on powerful positive and creative efforts in all aspects of society and alliances built among those engaged in them.

~ Elisabet Sahtouris

When you’re very young and you’re different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.

~ B.r. Sanders

I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.

~ Ali Rezavand Zayeri

I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can’t settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won’t let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?

~ Sōseki Natsume

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

~ Sōseki Natsume

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

~ Criss Jami

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

~ Sōseki Natsume

The modern Establishment relies on a mantra of 'There Is No Alternative': potential opposition is guarded against by enforcing disbelief in the idea that there is any other viable way of running society.

~ Owen Jones

I’m seeing so much of America today,” Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he’d say that — I’m seeing so much of America today.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities.

~ Idries Shah