--- title: "6 Society Gives Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 6 Society Gives quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Society Gives sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e9/willis-harman-38738_community_society-gives-legitimacy-and-society-can_119043.png" --- > [Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willis-harman/society-gives-legitimacy-and-society-can-take-it-away/) [Willis Harman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willis-harman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e9/willis-harman-38738_community_society-gives-legitimacy-and-society-can_119043.png) > [A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-mumford/a-society-that-gives-to-one-class-all-the-opportunities-for-leisure/) [Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-mumford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6b/lewis-mumford-2870_burden_a-society-that-gives-to-one-class-all-th_183475.jpg) > [Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-burwell/death-is-always-around-the-corner-but-often-our-society-gives-it/) [Carter Burwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-burwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72b/carter-burwell-15278_around-the-corner_death-is-always-around-the-corner-but-of_869974.png) > [A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-mumford/a-society-that-gives-to-one-class-all-the-opportunities-for-leisure-2/) [Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-mumford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/431/lewis-mumford-2870_burden_a-society-that-gives-to-one-class-all-th_1098992.png) > [Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-brunner/any-society-which-gives-lip-service-to-the-idea-of-equal-opportunity/) [John Brunner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-brunner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/john-brunner-10043_better-off_any-society-which-gives-lip-service-to-t_1480472.jpg) > [It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-j-nock/it-is-unfortunately-none-too-well-understood-that-just-as-the-state-2/) [Albert J. Nock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-j-nock/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4e/albert-j-nock-9816_assumption_it-is-unfortunately-none-too-well-unders_2817533.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/society-gives/#itemlist", "name": "Society Gives Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Willis Harman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willis-harman/society-gives-legitimacy-and-society-can-take-it-away/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e9/willis-harman-38738_community_society-gives-legitimacy-and-society-can_119043.png", "contentUrl": 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