Quotes about Society
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.
— Nelson Mandela
A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.
— Mike Pence
We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.
— Pope Francis
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
— William Hazlitt
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
— Confucius
Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.
— Pope Francis
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.
— John Newton
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
— Albert Einstein
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
— Justin Welby
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
— Henry David Thoreau