Society Quotes

"Society is no comfort to one not sociable."

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Arnold Toynbee

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

Thomas Wolfe

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free."

Emma Lazarus

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible."

"If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family."

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca

"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."

Epicurus

"Too many people spend money they earned... to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

Sydney J. Harris

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

Douglas Adams

"The medium is the message."

Marshall McLuhan

"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us."

John Culkin

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due."

Ulpian

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity."

Benjamin Disraeli

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."

Coretta Scott King

"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart."

Elizabeth Andrew

"A person is a person through other persons."

Desmond Tutu