Society Quotes

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

We should look closely on what is happening at the moment, guys with little moustaches can pop up everywhere now given this instable economic situation. A look into history shows us what that could mean.

~ Steve Keen

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

~ Steven Dietz

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

~ Patience Johnson

The more we realize that we are only separated by the membrane of our own limiting and dividing beliefs, the more sand we remove, ultimately uncovering the deep and direct roots between us. Only then is society truly united, when we realize we are a whole, composed of cohesive parts.

~ Kayla Severson

To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by begetting them, but set them loose in the world like wild dogs, beyond our control and often beyond our knowledge.

~ Graham Harman

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

Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to act the latter become uncouth brutes.

~ Cesare Pavese

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

~ G. K. Chesterton

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.

~ Arthur Stringer

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.

~ William T. Davis

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin