Definition of Society

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Society

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

Connection; participation; partnership.

A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

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Society Quotations

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Society Translations

society in Afrikaans is klub, samelewing, vereniging
society in Danish is selskab
society in Finnish is seura, kerho
society in Italian is comitiva
society in Latin is congregatio
society in Norwegian is forening
society in Portuguese is sociedade
society in Spanish is sociedad

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