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Anarchy is the ultimate destination of any positively evolving society.
-Eric Parslow
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What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
-Edgar Quinet
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-John Renesch
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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
-George William Russell
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
-George Santayana
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
-George Santayana
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
-Friedrich Von Schlegel
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Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.
-Henry Sedgwick
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
-B. F. Skinner
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The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
-Roy L. Smith
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
-Valerie Solanis
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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
-Stephen Sondheim
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.
-Susan Sontag
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
-George Steiner
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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai Stevenson
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Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
-Publilius Syrus
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.
-Tahanie
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The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.
-Henry David Thoreau
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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 odd-fellow society.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
-Mark Twain
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In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.
-Mark Twain
Roughing It, 1872
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A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
-Source Unknown
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
-Stephen Vizinczey
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Books about Society
