Quotes about Society
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.
— Nelson Mandela
Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.
— Myles Munroe
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
— Donald Miller
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
— Philip Yancey
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
— Florence Nightingale
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
— George Bernard Shaw
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
— George Eliot
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
— Samuel Johnson