We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. – R. D. Laing
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. – Karl Marx
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. – Karl Marx
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. – Robert Bork
A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good. – Bhumibol Adulyadej
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. – Benjamin Disraeli
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? – Honore de Balzac
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. – Honore de Balzac
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. – Christopher Lasch
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. – Neil Armstrong
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. – Alexis de Tocqueville
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. – Edward Bernays
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. – Lord Byron