Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Ed Koch

In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

It's the one day when all of society is turned upside down.

They're going from one end of society all the way to the other.

Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

David Scott

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

The more established you are in society, the more pageantry there tends to be at the weddings.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

The wise should work without attachment, for the welfare of the society.

Jack Kevorkian

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

Arthur Koestler

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

Arthur Koestler

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Demetri Martin

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

Boman Irani

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

Edward Young

Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Alfred Kazin

The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Albert Brooks

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.