Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

John Dryden

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Julian Green

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Publilius Syrus

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What times! What manners!

Mark Twain

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Irv Kupcinet

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

John Milton

Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

John Naisbitt

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Mignon McLaughlin

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

Maria Montessori

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Peter Drucker

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

James Russell Lowell

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Malcolm Muggeridge

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Eric Hoffer

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

Eric Hoffer

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

Eric Hoffer

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

Eric Hoffer

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

Eric Hoffer

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Lucan

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.

Rajneesh

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

Thomas Jefferson

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Richard Dawkins

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

Roland Barthes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.