Society

When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.

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Old Lady T-sh-nd [Townshend] formerly observed that the human race might be divided into three separate classes—men, women and H-v-eys [Herveys].

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This new rage for rhyming badly,Down to that new estate 'the masses.'

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What will Mrs. Grundy say?

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Heav'n forming each on other to depend,Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.

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Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs.

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There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society.

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In human society man is the chief tool of man.

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Money is the source of all the false ideas of society.

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Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society.

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Men are depraved and perverted by society.

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Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.

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Society is not created by the crowd.

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Society is no comfortTo one not sociable.

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Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,Shunn'd my abhorr'd society.

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To make societyTill supper-time alone.

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Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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As the French say, there are three sexes,—men, women, and clergymen.

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Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanille of society.

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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

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As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

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They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is 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 to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.

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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.

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Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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I suppose Society is wonderfully delightful.To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

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Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor allThe dreary intercourse of daily life.

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There isThe noble Living and the noble Dead.

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Society became my glittering bride,And airy hopes my children.

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Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase "social forces". Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

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[Society] is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

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We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

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The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

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The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow—by the tilt of the social landscape.

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.

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A person who cannot live in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a beast or a god.

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What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.

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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

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The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

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A people is but the attempt of manyAre singly of more value than they all.

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But now being lifted into high society,Agree to a short armistice with truth.

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What times! What manners!

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The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

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It is the retention by twentieth-century, men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.

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Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

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In human society the warmth is mainly at the bottom.

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The rout is Folly's circle, which she drawsThere we grow early gray, but never wise.

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It's not sex and drug advice these kids need, so much as help in acquiring a world view, in motivating them to take responsibility and enabling them to build proper relationships.

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The dependence of the individual upon society is a fact of nature which cannot be abolished.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saint.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

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In the affluent society, no sharp distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

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The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

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

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I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

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

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social life is fill’dIs turned to weariness.

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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

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Full quote: Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water ; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly to drown you. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life.

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I see clearly that society is as much a science as astronomy; and, also, that, like poetry, one must be born with a genius for it.

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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

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A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

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We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

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A society made up of the individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic.

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