Society Quotes

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Martha Beck

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
A. Whitney Brown

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Boyd Rice

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
Al Roker

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

It is good for society to have this introspection.
Jacques Verges

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun