Society Quotes

"Man is by nature a social animal."

"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."

Samuel Johnson

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

"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

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."

"Society is indeed a contract... 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

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

Ryunosuke Satoro

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

John Donne

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa

"Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a much more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."

B. R. Ambedkar

"So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor, who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them."