-
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. -
Oscar Wilde
|
-
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that. -
Oscar Wilde
|
-
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. -
Friedrich Schlegel
|
-
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. -
Roy L Smith
|
-
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. -
Valerie Solanis
|
-
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits. -
Susan Sontag
|
|
|
-
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. -
Dean William R Inge
|
-
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated. -
Rabindranath Tagore
|
-
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
-
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality. -
Henry David Thoreau
|
-
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. -
Margaret Thatcher
|
|
|
-
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society. -
Emile Durkheim
|
|
|
-
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. -
Emily Bronte
|
-
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. -
Edmund Burke
|
-
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. -
Lord Byron
|
-
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. -
Thomas Carlyle
|
|
|