Quotes about Society
[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
- CS Lewis
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
- CS Lewis
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
- Calvin Coolidge
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
- Carl Jung
Crimes the individual alone could never stand are freely committed by the group.
- Carl Jung
As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man
- George Bernard Shaw
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
- George Bernard Shaw
I'm one of the undeserving poor.
- George Bernard Shaw
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- George Bernard Shaw
An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
- George Eliot
It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.
- Isabel Allende