Best Society Quotes – Famous Society Quotations & Sayings

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -Theodore Roosevelt

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. -Mahatma Gandhi

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ]independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. -Pope John Paul II

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. -Oscar Wilde

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. -John Lennon

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. -Mahatma Gandhi

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. -Oscar Wilde(Society Quotes)

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals. -Oscar Wilde

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. -William S. Burroughs

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. -Thomas Jefferson

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. -A. Bartlett Giamatti

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -Mark Twain

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. -Hunter S. Thompson

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. -Mark Twain

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -John F. Kennedy

Society Quotes -Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. -P. J. O’Rourke

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. -Albert Einstein

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. -Zig Ziglar

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. -Ronald Reagan

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it. -John Lennon

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. -Clint Eastwood

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. -Erma Bombeck

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body. -Warren Buffett

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. -Nelson Mandela

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. -Nelson Mandela

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. -Charles W. Pickering

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. -Albert Camus

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. -Albert Camus

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one. -Thomas Paine

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. -Paulo Coelho

The society based on production is only productive, not creative. -Albert Camus

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. -Albert Camus

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. -Jim Rohn

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children. -Ednita Nazario

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? -Erich Fromm

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. -Henry David Thoreau

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. -Robert Frost

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. -Harry S. Truman

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

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. -Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. -Henry David Thoreau