Top Society Quotes

Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

Society Definition

(n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

(n.) Connection; participation; partnership.

(n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

(n.) The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

(n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-t...

For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The ap...

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.Oh, they don't miss me, she said. I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what...

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the ci...

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in...

Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened femaleas both auspicious and dangerous.

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more...

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

Can you see the pictures before you on how to intervene on behalf of the oppressed? Are you thinking of what to do to the disenfranchised of your society? Do you notice the abused of your society? Can...

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of w...

humanity suffers terribly from the demons it has created over lengths of time. we learn from nothing that we do. we create religions, heritage, race, traditions, then they all in turn become our stumb...

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.