Inspirational Quotes about Society
The society we live in is the mirror of who we are as individuals.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. – Montesquieu
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world, there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. – Jimmy Carter
Society is like a stew. If you don’t keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top. – Edward Abbey
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. – Mother Teresa
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
A society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools. – Thucydides
Each man’s joy is joy to me. Each man’s grief is my own. We need one another. So I defend each man as my brother, every man as my friend. – William Shakespeare
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. – Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational Quotes about Society part 2
Society is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born. – Edmund Burke
The function of a society is to create systematically the conditions that result in humans learning to behave in creative ways. – Noam Chomsky
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. – Orison Swett Marden
The greatness of humanity is not in being human but in being humane. – Mahatma Gandhi
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton
We rise by lifting others. – Robert Ingersoll.
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier ? instead it should aim at making people stronger. – Ashoka
Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. – Albert Einstein
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. – James Baldwin
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. – Albert Einstein
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. – James Baldwin
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. – Jimmy Carter
The function of a civilized society is to incite the mind, not to satiate it. – Aristotle
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. – Franz Kafka
We are all born marked for evil. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth. – Leonardo da Vinci
?I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.? – Voltaire
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. – A. J. Liebling
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. – Washington Irving
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. – Henri Frederic Amiel
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde.
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. – Hans Margolius
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. – Randall Jarrell
?People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.? – Rick Riordan
I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand. – Charles Schultz
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. – Charles Bukowski
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. – Rollo May
?The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.? – Omar N. Bradley
?Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn?t been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.? – Dr. Kevin Dutton.
The function of the wise man is to create silence, not to join the chorus. – Unknown.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. – Robert M. Pirsig.
