A
society
, or a
human
society, is a group of
people
related to each other through persistent
relations
, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual
territory
, subject to the same
political
authority
and dominant
cultural
expectations.
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- The more
corrupt
a society, the more numerous its
laws
.
- Edward Abbey
,
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)
(1990).
- A
person
who cannot
live
in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a
beast
or a
god
.
- What is not
good
for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.
- For it is most
true
that a
natural
and
secret
hatred
and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the
savage
beast.
- Francis Bacon
,
Essays
, Civil and Moral. Of Friendship. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and
protection
.
- The
history
of society is the history of the inventive
labors
that man alter man, alter his
desires
,
habits
, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and
technological
metabolism.
- A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one?
And those who live as models for the
mass
Are singly of more
value
than they all.
- Robert Browning
,
Luria
, Act V, line 334. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- But now being lifted into high society,
And having pick'd up several odds and ends
Of
free thoughts
in his
travels
for variety,
He deem'd, being in a lone
isle
, among
friends
,
That without any
danger
of a
riot
, he
Might for long lying make himself amends;
And
singing
as he sung in his warm
youth
,
Agree to a short armistice with
truth
.
- Those
families
, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
- Cooper
,
The Ways of the Hour
, Chapter VI. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- In human society the
warmth
is mainly at the bottom.
- The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws
With
magic
wand. So potent is the
spell
,
That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,
Unless by
Heaven
's peculiar
grace
, escape.
There we
grow
early gray, but never
wise
.
- It's not
sex
and
drug
advice these kids need, so much as
help
in acquiring a
world view
, in motivating them to take
responsibility
and enabling them to build proper relationships.
- Mankind
are not held together by
lies
.
Trust
is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported.
- The
abstract
concept
"society" means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of earlier generations. The individual is able to think,
feel
, strive, and
work
by himself; but he depends so much upon society?in his physical,
intellectual
, and
emotional
existence
?that it is impossible to think of him, or to
understand
him, outside the framework of society. It is "society" which provides man with
food
,
clothing
, a
home
, the tools of work,
language
, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions
past
and
present
who are all
hidden
behind the small
word
“society.”
- The
dependence
of the individual upon society is a
fact
of nature which cannot be abolished.
- Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
- Euripides
,
Phœnissæ. Frag.
809. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- For every social
wrong
there must be a
remedy
. But the remedy can be nothing less than the
abolition
of the wrong.
- Henry George
,
Social Problems
, Chapter IX. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without
pleasure
.
- Edward Gibbon
,
Memoirs
, Volume I, p. 116. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- I do not think there is anything deserving the
name
of society to be found out of
London
.
- I will only suggest that greater biological knowledge may, before long, alter the whole structure of society. Those who think that the life of the
future
will be like that of the present, only more so, are likely, I think, to be wrong.
- Sir
James Jeans
,
"Chapter VIII".
Living Philosophies
. Simon & Schuster. 1931. p. 116.
- I live in the crowds of
jollity
, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
- Samuel Johnson
,
Rasselas
, Chapter XVI. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Le sage quelquefois evite le monde de peur d'etre ennuye.
- The wise man sometimes flees from society from
fear
of being
bored
.
- Jean de La Bruyere
,
Les Caracteres
, V. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
- Charles Lamb
,
Captain Starkey
. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Society is like a large piece of frozen
water
; and skating well is the great
art
of social life.
- L. E. Landon
. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Full quote: Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water ; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly to
drown
you. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life.
- A society made up of the individuals who were all capable of original
thought
would probably be unendurable. The pressure of
ideas
would simply drive it frantic.
- When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.
- This is the essence of a good society: that people are able to feel goodness in themselves and each other as much as possible; that even when things are difficult or life is painful, people have the support of others; that the ways we get things done are also the ways we carve out spaces to fully see and appreciate each other. And have fun.
There are two ways of considering society. According to some, the development of human associations is not subject to providential, unchangeable
laws
. Rather, these associations, having originally been
organized
in a purely
artificial
manner by primeval legislators, can later be modified or remade by other legislators, in step with the progress of
social science
. In this system the government plays a preeminent role, because it is upon it, the custodian of the principle of
authority
, that the daily task of modifying and remaking society devolves.
?According to others, on the contrary, society is a purely natural fact. Like the
earth
on which it stands, society moves in accordance with general, preexisting laws. In this system, there is no such thing, strictly speaking, as social science; there is only
economic science
, which studies the natural organism of society and shows how this organism functions.
Man experiences a multitude of
needs
, on whose satisfaction his
happiness
depends, and whose non-satisfaction entails
suffering
.
Alone
and
isolated
, he could only provide in an incomplete, insufficient manner for these incessant needs. The instinct of
sociability
brings him together with similar persons, and drives him into
communication
with them. Therefore, impelled by the
self-interest
of the individuals thus brought together, a certain
division of labor
is established, necessarily followed by
exchanges
. In brief, we see an
organization
emerge, by means of which man can more completely satisfy his needs than he could living in isolation.
?This natural organization is called
society
.
?The object of society is therefore the most complete
satisfaction
of man's needs. The division of labor and
exchange
are the means by which this is accomplished.
- Old Lady T-sh-nd [Townshend] formerly
observed
that the human
race
might be divided into three separate
classes
?
men
,
women
and H-v-eys [Herveys].
- Attributed to
Lady Mary Wortley Montague
in Lord Wharncliffe's Ed. of her Letters and Works. Lady Louisa Stuart, in introductory anecdotes to the same, also credits the saying to Lady Montague, Volume I, p. 67. Attributed to Charles Pigott in The Jockey Club, Part II, p. 4. (Ed. 1792). Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- La Societe est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes.
- Society is the
union
of men and not the men themselves.
- Charles de Montesquieu
,
De l'Esprit
, X. 3. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- This new
rage
for
rhyming
badly,
Which late hath seized all ranks and classes,
Down to that new estate 'the masses.'
- Thomas Moore
,
The Fudges in England
, Letter 4. The classes and the masses. A phrase used by Gladstone. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- What will Mrs. Grundy say?
- Thomas Morton
,
Speed the Plough
(Ed. 1808), Act I, scene 1. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Intense
suffering
may be a private, internal phenomenon, often hidden from the gaze or awareness of others, but it is the most viscerally overwhelming experience there is, pleading desperately for relief. There is nothing else that has greater urgency than preventing or relieving intense suffering ? of human beings and, indeed, of any sentient beings capable of suffering. It is the single most important goal of a
compassionate
society.
- Our genetically enriched descendants may regard existence without "
dukkha
" - the abolition of
suffering
- as the ethical foundation of any civilised society.
- I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.
- Suman Pokhrel
,
I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity
, (An interview with Romain Molina)
- We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
- The men with the muck-rakes are often
indispensable
to the
well-being
of society; but only if they
know
when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the
celestial
crown above them.
- Theodore Roosevelt
, address on the laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building, Washington, D.C. (14 March 1906).
- Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs.
- There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society.
- In human society man is the chief tool of man.
- Money is the source of all the false ideas of society.
- Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society.
- Men are depraved and perverted by society.
- Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.
- Society is not created by the crowd.
- Sociale animal est.
- [Man] is a social
animal
.
- Seneca the Younger
,
De Beneficiis
, Book VII. 1. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,
Who, having seen me in my worst estate,
Shunn'd my abhorr'd society.
- William Shakespeare
,
King Lear
(1608), Act V, scene 3, line 208. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- To make society
The
sweeter
welcome
, we will keep ourself
Till supper-time alone.
- William Shakespeare
,
Macbeth
(1605), Act III, scene 1, line 42. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Men lived like
fishes
; the great ones
devoured
the small.
- Algernon Sidney
,
Discourses on Government
, Chapter II, Section XVIII. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- As the
French
say, there are three
sexes
,?men, women, and
clergymen
.
- Sydney Smith
,
Lady Holland's Memoir
, Volume I, p. 262. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanille of society.
- Sydney Smith
,
Lady Holland's Memoir
, Volume I, p. 262. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- I don't want to waste my time; become another casualty of society. I'll never fall in line; become another victim of your conformity and back down.
- Society can imprison one's happiness
- It is impossible, in our
condition
of Society, not to be sometimes a
Snob
.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
,
Book of Snobs
, Chapter III. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right
order
of life, nor a
rich
society too rich to have need to seek it.
- They're casting their
problem
on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are
families
. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our
duty
to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in
mind
, without the
obligations
.
- Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty
institutions
, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their
desperate
oddfellow society.
- Society therefore is as
ancient
as the world.
- Voltaire
,
Dictionnaire philosophique portatif
("
A Philosophical Dictionary
") (1764), Policy. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- In the past, women were supposed to be pretty and men successful. Nowadays, everyone has to be able to do everything, and the pressure to satisfy that goal, along with the insecurity it brings, has doubled. Expectations rise while birth rates fall. Women have become a more horrific version of men, readily expressing their displeasure over lack of sexual compliance. Men have become insecure and have fled to the Internet. Both are approaching a state of narcissistic lunacy, and solidarity is something that seems attainable only among friends.
- Ariadne von Schirach,
[1]
- Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
,
An Ideal Husband
, Act III. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the
city
.
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
,
Necessity for a Promenade Drive
. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Nor greetings where no
kindness
is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life.
- William Wordsworth
, lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- There is
One great society alone on earth:
The
noble
Living and the noble
Dead
.
- William Wordsworth
,
The Prelude
, Book XI. Reported in
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
(1922), p. 724?25.
- Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my children.
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
(1989)
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- Now, the vicissitudes that
afflict
the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase "social forces". Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under
control
. The
study
of how it is to be done is the function of politics.
- [Society] is a
partnership
in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the
ends
of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
- Edmund Burke
, "Reflections on the Revolution in France", 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 359 (1899).
- We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where
enterprise
gains no
reward
and thrift no
privileges
.
- Winston Churchill
, radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897?1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 7, p. 6761 (1974).
- The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the
present
series of
protests
and
dissents
. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is
violence
; and that is where we are today.
- The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which
talent
and
ambition
flow?by the tilt of the social landscape.
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