Society quotes

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Women are the real architects of society.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.