Society Quotes

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling

Money, Role, Press

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
Hugh Kingsmill

Everyone, Alive, Based

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin

Great, Mistake, Garden

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Charles de Secondat

Men, Themselves, Union

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Candace Bushnell

Money, Women, Power

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun

Time, Morning, Long

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald

Anymore, Recording, Satire

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Jack Kingston

Marriage, Good, Cannot

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Abbie Hoffman

Around, Key, Organizing

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
Max Cannon

Social, Beyond, However

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne

Conspiracy, Likes, Convenient

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Valerie Solanas

Family, Community, Isolated

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
Al Roker

Leaving, Kids, Baby

It is good for society to have this introspection.
Jacques Verges

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Law, Broken

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth, Lie, Moment

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

Human, Individual, Valuable

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Zig Ziglar

God, Live, Wanted

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

War, Great, Greatest

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Born, White, Greater

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Help, Rich, Cannot

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

Love, Power, Ignorance

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Influence, Clothes, Naked

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

Stupidity, Guilty, Getting

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