Top Society Quotes

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flyi...

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he th...

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.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.

What if you'd live every day as if you were our society's future and hope?

Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own...

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzle...

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

The problem with our society today is that when things fall apart we do remember to call upon the Lord, but when God answers our prayers we are too quick to exclude Him from those answered prayers.

Carrying the weight of a conditioned mind leaves little opportunity for the questions you should be asking.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational...

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses an...

We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it. Femaleness and i...