Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Society

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass (1817–95) American Abolitionist, Author, Editor, Diplomat, Political leader

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath

To attain excellence in society, an assemblage of qualifications is requisite: disciplined intellect, to think clearly, and to clothe thought with propriety and elegance; knowledge of human nature, to suit subject to character; true politeness, to prevent giving pain; a deep sense of morality, to preserve the dignity of speech; and a spirit of benevolence, to neutralize its asperities, and sanctify its powers.
Lydia H. Sigourney (1791–1865) American Poetaster, Author

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named “fair competition” and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian Playwright

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

Man is a social animal, formed to please and enjoy in society.
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French Political Philosopher, Jurist

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Without good company all dainties lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, are only seen, not tasted.
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) English Playwright

No company is 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.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual’s distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety’s or comfort’s sake, to stand well in his neighbor’s eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian

A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.
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So far as a person thinks; they are free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Opportunities? They are all around us… There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot (1826–77) English Economist, Journalist

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher

Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Common Proverb

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British Head of State

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.
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