Friday, February 13, 2026 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Society Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Oscar Wilde | Society Quotes
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
Peter F. Drucker
Our society has become an employee society.
Nadine Gordimer
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.




Thomas Paine
It is of the utmost danger to society to make it (religion) a party in political disputes.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
Nicolas Chamfort | Society Quotes
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Christopher Hitchens
Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
Edmund Burke
It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Fulton J. Sheen
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Vernor Vinge
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Blaise Pascal | Society Quotes
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity, &c. 41




Northrop Frye
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
Hosea Ballou
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
David McNally (professor)
In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.
Joseph Stalin
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
Desmond Tutu | Society Quotes
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Richard Cecil
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Alain de Botton
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
Edward R. Murrow
We are to a large extent an imitative society.
Kenneth Grahame
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact