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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws. ~Edward Abbey

Asociety,or ahumansociety, is a group ofpeoplerelated to each other through persistentrelations,or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtualterritory,subject to the samepoliticalauthorityand dominantculturalexpectations.

CONTENT:A–B-C–D-E–F-G–H-I–J-K–L-M–N-O–P-Q–R-S–T-U–V-W–X-Y–Z-See also

Quotes

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listed alphabetically by author

A–B

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  • The morecorrupta society, the more numerous itslaws.
    • Edward Abbey,A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)(1990).
  • For it is mosttruethat anaturalandsecrethatredand aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of thesavagebeast.
    • Francis Bacon,Essays,Civil and Moral. Of Friendship. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Thehistoryof society is the history of the inventivelaborsthat man alter man, alter hisdesires,habits,outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical andtechnologicalmetabolism.
  • A people is but the attempt of many
    To rise to the completer life of one—
    And those who live as models for themass
    Are singly of morevaluethan they all.
    • Robert Browning,Luria,Act V, line 334. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.

C–D

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What is notgoodfor the beehive, cannot be good for the bees. ~Marcus Aurelius
  • Thosefamilies,you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
    • Cooper,The Ways of the Hour,Chapter VI. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws
    Withmagicwand. So potent is thespell,
    That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,
    Unless byHeaven's peculiargrace,escape.
    There wegrowearly gray, but neverwise.
  • Mankindare not held together bylies.Trustis the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported.

E–F

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  • Theabstractconcept"society" means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of earlier generations. The individual is able to think,feel,strive, andworkby himself; but he depends so much upon society—in his physical,intellectual,andemotionalexistence—that it is impossible to think of him, or tounderstandhim, outside the framework of society. It is "society" which provides man withfood,clothing,ahome,the tools of work,language,the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millionspastandpresentwho are allhiddenbehind the smallword“society.”
  • Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
    • Euripides,Phœnissæ. Frag.809. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.

G–H

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  • For every socialwrongthere must be aremedy.But the remedy can be nothing less than theabolitionof the wrong.
    • Henry George,Social Problems,Chapter IX. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation withoutpleasure.
    • Edward Gibbon,Memoirs,Volume I, p. 116. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.

I–J

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  • I will only suggest that greater biological knowledge may, before long, alter the whole structure of society. Those who think that the life of thefuturewill be like that of the present, only more so, are likely, I think, to be wrong.
    • SirJames Jeans,"Chapter VIII".Living Philosophies.Simon & Schuster. 1931. p. 116.
  • I live in the crowds ofjollity,not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
    • Samuel Johnson,Rasselas,Chapter XVI. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.

K–L

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  • Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur d'être ennuyè.
    • The wise man sometimes flees from society fromfearof beingbored.
    • Jean de La Bruyère,Les Caractères,V. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
    • Charles Lamb,Captain Starkey.Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Society is like a large piece of frozenwater;and skating well is the greatartof social life.
    • L. E. Landon.Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Full quote: Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly todrownyou. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life.

M–N

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  • A society made up of the individuals who were all capable of originalthoughtwould probably be unendurable. The pressure ofideaswould simply drive it frantic.
  • When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.
  • This is the essence of a good society: that people are able to feel goodness in themselves and each other as much as possible; that even when things are difficult or life is painful, people have the support of others; that the ways we get things done are also the ways we carve out spaces to fully see and appreciate each other. And have fun.

  • There are two ways of considering society. According to some, the development of human associations is not subject to providential, unchangeablelaws.Rather, these associations, having originally beenorganizedin a purelyartificialmanner by primeval legislators, can later be modified or remade by other legislators, in step with the progress ofsocial science.In this system the government plays a preeminent role, because it is upon it, the custodian of the principle ofauthority,that the daily task of modifying and remaking society devolves.

    According to others, on the contrary, society is a purely natural fact. Like theearthon which it stands, society moves in accordance with general, preexisting laws. In this system, there is no such thing, strictly speaking, as social science; there is onlyeconomic science,which studies the natural organism of society and shows how this organism functions.

  • Man experiences a multitude ofneeds,on whose satisfaction hishappinessdepends, and whose non-satisfaction entailssuffering.Aloneandisolated,he could only provide in an incomplete, insufficient manner for these incessant needs. The instinct ofsociabilitybrings him together with similar persons, and drives him intocommunicationwith them. Therefore, impelled by theself-interestof the individuals thus brought together, a certaindivision of laboris established, necessarily followed byexchanges.In brief, we see anorganizationemerge, by means of which man can more completely satisfy his needs than he could living in isolation.

    This natural organization is calledsociety.

    The object of society is therefore the most completesatisfactionof man's needs. The division of labor andexchangeare the means by which this is accomplished.

  • Old Lady T-sh-nd [Townshend] formerlyobservedthat the humanracemight be divided into three separateclasses—men,womenand H-v-eys [Herveys].
    • Attributed toLady Mary Wortley Montaguein Lord Wharncliffe's Ed. of her Letters and Works. Lady Louisa Stuart, in introductory anecdotes to the same, also credits the saying to Lady Montague, Volume I, p. 67. Attributed to Charles Pigott in The Jockey Club, Part II, p. 4. (Ed. 1792). Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • La Société est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes.
    • Society is theunionof men and not the men themselves.
    • Charles de Montesquieu,De l'Esprit,X. 3. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • This newrageforrhymingbadly,
    Which late hath seized all ranks and classes,
    Down to that new estate 'the masses.'
    • Thomas Moore,The Fudges in England,Letter 4. The classes and the masses. A phrase used by Gladstone. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • What will Mrs. Grundy say?
    • Thomas Morton,Speed the Plough(Ed. 1808), Act I, scene 1. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.

O–P

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  • Intensesufferingmay be a private, internal phenomenon, often hidden from the gaze or awareness of others, but it is the most viscerally overwhelming experience there is, pleading desperately for relief. There is nothing else that has greater urgency than preventing or relieving intense suffering – of human beings and, indeed, of any sentient beings capable of suffering. It is the single most important goal of acompassionatesociety.
  • I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.
    • Suman Pokhrel,I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity,(An interview with Romain Molina)

Q–R

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  • 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.
  • The men with the muck-rakes are oftenindispensableto thewell-beingof society; but only if theyknowwhen to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to thecelestialcrown above them.
    • Theodore Roosevelt,address on the laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building, Washington, D.C. (14 March 1906).
  • Society is not created by the crowd.

S–T

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  • Sociale animal est.
    • [Man] is a socialanimal.
    • Seneca the Younger,De Beneficiis,Book VII. 1. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,
    Who, having seen me in my worst estate,
    Shunn'd my abhorr'd society.
  • To make society
    Thesweeterwelcome,we will keep ourself
    Till supper-time alone.
    • William Shakespeare,Macbeth(1605), Act III, scene 1, line 42. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Men lived likefishes;the great onesdevouredthe small.
    • Algernon Sidney,Discourses on Government,Chapter II, Section XVIII. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • As theFrenchsay, there are threesexes,—men, women, andclergymen.
    • Sydney Smith,Lady Holland's Memoir,Volume I, p. 262. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanille of society.
    • Sydney Smith,Lady Holland's Memoir,Volume I, p. 262. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • I don't want to waste my time; become another casualty of society. I'll never fall in line; become another victim of your conformity and back down.
  • It is impossible, in ourconditionof Society, not to be sometimes aSnob.
  • As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a rightorderof life, nor arichsociety too rich to have need to seek it.
  • They're casting theirproblemon society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there arefamilies.And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's ourdutyto look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much inmind,without theobligations.

U–V

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  • Society therefore is asancientas the world.
    • Voltaire,Dictionnaire philosophique portatif( "A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Policy. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • In the past, women were supposed to be pretty and men successful. Nowadays, everyone has to be able to do everything, and the pressure to satisfy that goal, along with the insecurity it brings, has doubled. Expectations rise while birth rates fall. Women have become a more horrific version of men, readily expressing their displeasure over lack of sexual compliance. Men have become insecure and have fled to the Internet. Both are approaching a state of narcissistic lunacy, and solidarity is something that seems attainable only among friends.
    • Ariadne von Schirach,[1]

W–X

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  • Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
    • Oscar Wilde,An Ideal Husband,Act III. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of thecity.
    • Nathaniel Parker Willis,Necessity for a Promenade Drive.Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Nor greetings where nokindnessis, nor all
    The dreary intercourse of daily life.
    • William Wordsworth,lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • There is
    One great society alone on earth:
    ThenobleLiving and the nobleDead.
    • William Wordsworth,The Prelude,Book XI. Reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 724–25.
  • Society became my glittering bride,
    And airy hopes my children.

Y–Z

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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations(1989)

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  • Now, the vicissitudes thatafflictthe individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase "social forces". Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it undercontrol.Thestudyof how it is to be done is the function of politics.
  • [Society] is apartnershipin all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As theendsof such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
    • Edmund Burke,"Reflections on the Revolution in France", 1790, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 3, p. 359 (1899).
  • We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society whereenterprisegains norewardand thrift noprivileges.
    • Winston Churchill,radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 7, p. 6761 (1974).
  • The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates thepresentseries ofprotestsanddissents.Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there isviolence;and that is where we are today.
  • The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in whichtalentandambitionflow—by the tilt of the social landscape.

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See also

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Social and political philosophy
Ideologies Anarchism⦿Aristocratic Radicalism(Nietzsche•Brandes...)⦿Autarchism⦿Ba'athism(•Aflaq•al-Assad•Hussein)⦿Communism⦿ (Neo-)Confucianism⦿Conservatism⦿Constitutionalism⦿Dark Enlightenment⦿Environmentalism⦿Fascism(•Islamo-•Eco-•Francoism...)vs.Nazism⦿Feminism(•Anarcha-•Radical•Gender-critical•Second-wave...)⦿Formalism/(Neo-)cameralism⦿Freudo-Marxism⦿Gaddafism/Third International Theory⦿Legalism⦿Leninism/Vanguardism⦿Juche(•Kim Il-sung•Kim Jong Il•Kim Jong Un...)⦿Liberalism⦿Libertarianism/Laissez-faireCapitalism⦿Maoism⦿Marxism⦿Mohism⦿Republicanism⦿Social democracy⦿Socialism⦿Stalinism⦿Straussianism⦿Syndicalism⦿Xi Jinping thought⦿New Monasticism(•MacIntyre•Dreher...)
Modalities Absolutismvs.Social constructionism/Relativism⦿Autarky/Autonomyvs.Heteronomy⦿Authoritarianism/Totalitarianism⦿Colonialismvs.Imperialism⦿Communitarianismvs.Liberalism⦿Elitismvs.Populism/Majoritarianism/Egalitarianism⦿Individualismvs.Collectivism⦿Nationalismvs.Cosmopolitanism⦿Particularismvs.Universalism⦿Modernism/Progressivismvs.Postmodernism⦿Reactionism/Traditionalismvs.Futurism/Transhumanism
Concepts Alienation⦿Anarcho-tyranny⦿Anomie⦿Authority⦿Conquest's Laws of Politics⦿Duty⦿Eugenics⦿Elite⦿Elite theory⦿Emancipation⦿Equality⦿Freedom⦿Government⦿Hegemony⦿Hierarchy⦿Iron law of oligarchy⦿Justice⦿Law⦿Monopoly⦿Natural law⦿Noblesse oblige⦿Norms⦿Obedience⦿Peace⦿Pluralism⦿Polyarchy⦿Power⦿Propaganda⦿Property⦿Revolt⦿Rebellion⦿Revolution⦿Rights⦿Ruling class⦿Social contract⦿Social inequality⦿Society⦿State⦿Tocqueville effect⦿Totalitarian democracy⦿War⦿Utopia
Government Aristocracy⦿Autocracy⦿Bureaucracy⦿Dictatorship⦿Democracy⦿Meritocracy⦿Monarchy⦿Ochlocracy⦿Oligarchy⦿Plutocracy⦿Technocracy⦿Theocracy⦿Tyranny


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