Society Quotes - Page 18

• If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, House, Church

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”

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• A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Freedom, Members, Oppressed

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• The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, People, Rose

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• Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Hands, Solitude

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• The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

  Ernest Jones

  Men, Outrun, Secured

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

  William James

  Animal, Sight, Kind

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.293, Courier Corporation

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• No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

  Plato

  Men, Knowing, Able

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.388

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• It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Distance, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.391, Modern Library

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• The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Children, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Men, Coats, Dismissal

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• Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.

  Henry Adams

  Mean, Men, Cities

  Henry Adams (2005). “Democracy an American Novel”, p.35, 1st World Publishing

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• The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Judging, Flow, Criteria

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• Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Animal, Men, Social

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• The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Citizens, May

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.186, Library of Alexandria

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• Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Small Changes, Quality

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• We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Color, Chameleon

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• Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

  Josh Billings

  Christian, Wide Awake, Sinner

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• We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

  Josh Billings

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Lying, Heart

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7646, Delphi Classics

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• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Purpose, Sake

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• Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Power, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Children, Educational

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• If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.

  Nhat Hanh

  Family, Peace, War

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.10, Penguin

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• A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Machines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.265, Bantam Classics

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