One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David Ogilvy

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
David Ogilvy

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus