All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice Walker

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
Jim Carrey

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

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.
Edward Abbey

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Neil Armstrong

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler

Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa