society quotes

• You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. (George Sand) [soul & body/society/power/willpower]
• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. (Vladimir Nabokov) [art/society]
• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. (Robert Frost) [society/point]
• If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (John F. Kennedy) [society]
• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. (John Locke) [men/society/property]
• There is a dark invisible workmanship - that reconciles discordant elements - and makes them move in one society. (William Wordsworth) [society]
• The happiness of society is the end of government. (John Adams) [happiness/society/government]
• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. (John Adams) [abuse/words/society]
• Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. (Saul Alinsky) [society]
• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous. ( Aristotle) [society/state/creation/state]
• There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity. (Antonin Artaud) [rest/society/willpower/willpower]
• And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. (Antonin Artaud) [human/society/society]
• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. (Antonin Artaud) [society/language]
• Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. (Jacques Attali) [music/society/repetition/willpower]
• Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. (Margaret Atwood) [art/society]
• The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. (James Baldwin) [paradox/education/society/being]
• Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. (James Baldwin) [society/willpower/foundations/society]
• There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. (Roland Barthes) [present/day/society]
• Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf to the speech at a formal dinner. (Roland Barthes) [wine/society/basis/]
• Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. (Jean Baudrillard) [democracy/society/soul & body]
• What is a society without a heroic dimension? (Jean Baudrillard) [society]
• A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead. (Jean Baudrillard) [society/face]
• Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. (Jean Baudrillard) [conscience/society]
• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. (Georges Bernanos) [corruption/society]
• Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. (Bertolt Brecht) [society/share/system]
• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Emily Bronte) [pleasure/society/find/company]
• In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. (Luis Bunuel) [society/artist/responsibility/painter]
• Society is indeed a contract. 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 living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. (Edmund Burke) [society/contract/science/art]
• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. (Edmund Burke) [order/capital/society]
• I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. (Italo Calvino) [present/human/society]
• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. (Albert Camus) [culture/society/perfect/creation]

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