Society Quotes

Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

The transcendent law of nature and of nature’s God… declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all institutions must be sacrificed.

Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire among the people aversion to the upper classes of society.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the […]

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.