Society Quotes

Society has pretty much taught us that it's inside the lines, or outside. But there's so much more in between.

~ Amber L. Johnson

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

~ Stefan Molyneux

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

~ Joseph Campbell

A true romantic will break the rules for the right reasons. He will not conform to the ideals bestowed upon him by society. Instead he will fight for a climate of freedom that allows him to pursue and obtain his heart's true yearning. He will appear incorrect in his upright form, but such perception only through the eyes of those travelling under the hypnotic notion of social paradigms. Do not judge he who is breaking the rules, rather try to understand his motivations. If his intent is pure then his fight is not in vain.

~ Nicole Bonomi

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society.

~ Amit Kalantri

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

~ Unarine Ramaru

We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?

~ Unarine Ramaru

Don't make noise, rather give people good reasons to make noise about you.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

~ Audre Lorde

In my civilian world at home in Los Angeles, half the people I know are on antidepressants or anti–panic attack drugs because they can’t handle the stress of a mean boss or a crowd at the 7-Eleven when buying a Slurpee.

~ Evan Wright

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind. Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, Or imagining that we do.

~ Jaq D. Hawkins

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

~ Mark Twain

Respect can be offered and is deserved by a homeless man and so by a president.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

~ Virginia Woolf

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

~ Brandon Stanton

Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do not confuse the two.

~ Unarine Ramaru

I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase,” ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. “I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn’t care.

~ Chuck Klosterman

The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?

~ Salman Rushdie

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

~ Raheel Farooq

Hitler is the human catch-all for all other terrible humans.

~ Chuck Klosterman

The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.

~ Lesley Pearse

When the society missteps, it's the youth who first fall sideways.

~ Nyona Matende

We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing... And we all enjoy it hahaha

~ Honeya

Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.

~ Criss Jami

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

~ C. Wright Mills

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts, expecting to be agitated, and her aunt tried to cry. Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

~ Jane Austen

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

In this world we are all pretenders, and Society is our game

~ Lucas Sterk

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

~ Idries Shah

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

~ Haruki Murakami

Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets.

~ Solange Nicole

If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.

~ Vishwas Chavan

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

~ Michael Foley

You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.

~ Hanif Kureishi

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

~ Honoré De Balzac

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

~ Idries Shah

I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they’ve invented in America, who supply their servants with toupees, television stations, and, most important, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.

~ Douglas Adams

At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched.Enter.Loved.

~ Arundhati Roy