Quotes about Society

The soul of our nation is reflected in the stories we tell.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

The young think they can change the world, which is true, but they can't change it without the old.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

The power of literature is in its ability to reflect and shape society.

The fight for justice is a fight for our own humanity.

Our literature must reflect our collective soul.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Our literature is the voice of our collective soul, speaking truth to power.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Don't let anybody tell you what you can or cannot do, or how you should live your life.

Society is the mother of law, and law the mother of order.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Society is a reflection of the soul.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

In old times, if somebody died, they would call in the priest, but now they call in the doctor.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

You say yes, but I say no.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

A just society is one where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The stories we tell are the mirror through which we understand ourselves and our society.

The power of literature lies in its ability to reflect and shape our collective consciousness.

For a century, we've been singing war songs about addicts. All along, we should have been singing love songs to them.

The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety, it's connection.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The best way to solve a problem is to make it personal.