« All Society Quotes · Michel de Montaigne's Page
Society Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
- Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that…
- We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to…
- The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most…
- Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
- Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi