72 Best Society Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing society quotes and sayings.
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Short Society sayings
“Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.” —Maria Montessori
“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.” —Victor Pinchuk
“We obey the laws of society because they are the laws of virtue.” —Fisher Ames
“Society is unity in diversity.” —George Herbert Mead
“I think the first duty of society is justice.” —Alexander Hamilton
“There is no higher value in our society than integrity.” —Arlen Specter
“Justice is the great end of civil society.” —David Dudley Field
“Gold is the key to society; but poverty its barrier.” —William Scott Downey
“A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.” —John Rawls
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” —Aristotle
“There is a society in the deepest solitude.” —Isaacd’Israeli
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.” —Confucius
“Society is the mother of us all.” —John Daniel Barry
“When humor goes, there goes civilization.” —Erma Bombeck
“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.” —Nicolas Chamfort
“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.” —Robert Frost
“You decide who you are, not society.” —Unknown
“Don’t let society manipulate you.” —Unknown
“A society’s morality depends on how it treats the weak and poor.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“Do not become a slave to society.” —Unknown
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” —Victor Hugo
“Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.” —Henry Thomas Buckle
“Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.” —Alexander McCall Smith
“The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.” —Unknown
“The happiness of society is the end of government.” —John Adams
“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” —Robert A. Heinlein
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.” —Ayn Rand
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.” —Jean de la Bruyere
Society sayings
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” —Nelson Mandela
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” —John F. Kennedy
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” —James A. Baldwin
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” —Mark Twain
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” —Honoré de Balzac
“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.” —Andre Gide
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” —John Locke
“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” —Mason Cooley
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” —Guy Kawasaki
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.” —Georges Bernanos
“Society is composed of two great classes -those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.” —Chamfort
“When one person suffers from delusions, we call it a mental illness. When society suffers from them, we call it being normal.” —Unknown
“Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.” —Herbert Spencer
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” —Oscar Wilde
“Those who are actually in society, are not as ridiculous as those who are trying to get in.” —Edgar Watson Howe
“No one would speak much in society if he were aware how often we misunderstand others.” —Unknown
“Welcome to our society. You will be judged on what you wear, your taste in music, what you look like, and how you act.” —Unknown
“Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” —Adam Smith
“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.” —Germaine Greer
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.” —Thomas Paine
“We incrementally destroy our society every time we agree that abnormal is normal or that normal is special.” —Alan Robert Neal
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.” —Northrop Frye
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.” —Barack Obama
“No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seek it, he must serve it too.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.” —John Emerich Edward Dalberg
“Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.” —Celia Green
“A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.” —Winston Churchill
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” —Robin Williams
“If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.” —Robert Patterson
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” —Adlai E. Stevenson
“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.” —Hugh Kingsmill
“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.” —Andre Gide
“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.” —Orson Welles
Top Ten Society sayings
Here you will find top ten society sayings selected by our team.
- “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” —John F. Kennedy
- “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” —Aristotle
- “The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.” —Georges Bernanos
- “I think the first duty of society is justice.” —Alexander Hamilton
- “A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.” —Winston Churchill
- “We obey the laws of society because they are the laws of virtue.” —Fisher Ames
- “Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.” —Herbert Spencer
- “The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.” —Orson Welles
- “A society’s morality depends on how it treats the weak and poor.” —Dr T.P.Chia
- “Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.” —Barack Obama
