SOCIETY QUOTES VI

quotations about society

Parts of a machine
Modern day slavery
Dehumanizing control
Wasted lives fading
Sick Society System
Sick Society System
System of survival

CRIMINAL

"S.S.S."


I'm just the subject of discussion now
The one no-one admires
I'm society's victim
I'm not just sufferin' from paranoia
It's invented by you and them

DISCHARGE

"Society's Victim"


I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful.
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance


Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

OSCAR WILDE

An Ideal Husband

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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 the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

Points of Rebellion


No entrance without any exit, no possible society without a spacious graveyard.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


Gold is the key to society; but poverty its barrier.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

TIMOTHY LEARY

The Politics of Ecstasy

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Were it not for some small remainders of piety and virtue which are yet left scattered among mankind, human society would in a short space disband and run into confusion, and the earth would grow wild and become a forest.

JOHN TILLOTSON

"The Advantages of Religion to Societies", The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson

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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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Side by side and always tired
All for one and no-one hired
All that's left is love inspired
Low society

HEAVEN 17

"Low Society"


Without some portion of moral virtues, not even thieves can maintain society.

J. HARRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Society is addicted to growth, and that's having terrible consequences for the planet and, increasingly, for us as well. We have to change our collective and individual behavior and give up something we depend on--power over our environment. We must restrain ourselves, like an alcoholic foreswearing booze. That requires honesty and soul-searching.

RICHARD HEINBERG

"Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope", EcoWatch, August 14, 2017


Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure -- but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of 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 to be born.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

EDWIN H. LAND

testimony, The Public Television Act of 1967: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications

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Justice is the great end of civil society.

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD

speech, March 1885

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It may be that our society is only passing through a period of ugly transition, but the present evil has its root deep down in the social organization, and springs from a diseased public opinion.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

"A Chapter of Erie", North American Review, July 1869

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Society is a chain of obligations, and its links must support each other;
The branch cannot but wither, that is cut from the parent vine.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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