Quotes about Society
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.
- Nelson Mandela
A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.
- Mike Pence
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
- William Hazlitt
Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
- Confucius
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.
- John Newton
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
- Albert Einstein
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
- Justin Welby
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
- Henry David Thoreau
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
- Billy Graham