Quotes about Society
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
— John Adams
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
— John Ortberg
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
— Malcolm X
America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.
— George W. Bush
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
— Joseph Campbell
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.
— John Adams
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
— GK Chesterton
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
— Samuel Johnson
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.
— Thomas Paine
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
— Thomas Jefferson