A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Bertolt Brecht

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Simone de Beauvoir

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Alain de Botton

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Honore De Balzac

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
Shel Silverstein

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
Ken Kesey

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang