Best Society Quotes
8263 Society quotes by 4010 unique authors
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
— Edward Abbey
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
— Honore de Balzac
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
— Honore de Balzac
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
— Honore de Balzac
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We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like…
— Antonio Banderas
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The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
— Tyra Banks
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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
— Brigitte Bardot
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any…
— John Perry Barlow
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The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
— Dave Barry
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Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
— Scott Adams
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
— John Adams
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
— John Adams
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
— John Adams
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four…
— John Adams
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I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to…
— Jacques Barzun
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
— Jacques Barzun
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Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living…
— Mario Batali
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
— Jean Baudrillard
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