Quotes for Society

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Alvin Toffler

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Paul Keating

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Howard Mumford Jones

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Charles E. Wilson

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

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin

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

Albert Einstein

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Carl Jung

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

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 Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

Ai Weiwei

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Robert Kennedy

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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 can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Isaac Asimov