Best Society Quotes – Famous Society Quotations & Sayings

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. -Ayn Rand

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. -Ralph Waldo Emerson(Society Quotes)

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. -Marilyn Monroe

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. -Vince Lombardi

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. -Aristotle

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. -Victor Hugo

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. -B. R. Ambedkar

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. -Niccolo Machiavelli

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. -Jerry Garcia

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. -H. L. Mencken

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. -Karl Marx

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. -Mike Tyson

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. -Ernst Fischer

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. -Joel Osteen

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. -John Wooden

Society therefore is an ancient as the world. -Voltaire

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. -Margaret Thatcher

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. -Ayn Rand

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. -Thomas Paine

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. -John Adams

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -Robert A. Heinlein

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. -Lee Iacocca