Society Quotes

"We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty."

G. K. Chesterton

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."

Robert A. Heinlein

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

Jeremy Bentham

"Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it."

Henry Thomas Buckle

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

William Blackstone

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Anatole France

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

Honoré de Balzac

"The family is the first essential cell of human society."

Pope John XXIII

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Will Durant

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller

"We rise by lifting others."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

Muhammad Ali

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

Leo Rosten

"The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

Bill Gates

"Public opinion in this country is everything."

"Society attacks early when the individual is helpless."

B. F. Skinner

"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation."

"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."

Gloria Steinem

"Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire... Caste is a notion, it is a state of the mind."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

"The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."

Pearl S. Buck

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

Margaret Mead

"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

Lady Bird Johnson

"What is the city but the people?"

"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."

Jane Jacobs