Quotes about Society

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The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we — C. JoyBell C.
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in. — Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government — Bill Hicks
... for most practical purposes, Tarbean had two parts: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That — Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Bursar?""Yes, Archchancellor?""You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?""Me? No, Archchancellor. — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
When humor goes, there goes civilization. — Erma Bombeck
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ball — Charles Bukowski, Women
Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be w — Matthew Lewis, The Monk
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m insid — Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Preci — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and econ — John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. — Fulton J. Sheen
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. — Stefan Molyneux
This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;The man who doe — Cristiane Serruya, The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad — Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not ev — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun