Quotes about Society
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society
— Pope Francis
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
— Ayn Rand
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
— Hillary Clinton
Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.
— Francis Schaeffer
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
— Malcolm X
God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
— Victor Hugo
God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
— Victor Hugo
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
— William Hazlitt
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
— Bill Gates