Quotes about Society
You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
- Philip Yancey
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
- Florence Nightingale
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.
- George Bernard Shaw
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
- George Eliot
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
- Samuel Johnson
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
- GK Chesterton
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
- Ben Carson
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
- Phillips Brooks
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.
- Ronald Reagan