Society Quotes

Life is of no value but as it brings us gratifications. Among the most valuable of these is rational society. It informs the mind, sweetens the temper, cheers our spirits, and promotes health.

Society cares for the individual only insofar as he is profitable.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

The Society is his, who sees through it’s pretention. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufference – your sufference. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it, its mortal blow.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

An armed society is a polite society. (19th century)

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

When we throw off the yoke of public opinion, it is seldom for the purpose of rising above it, but nearly always to fall below.