society Quotes

“Our conclusion, then, is that political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“Among unequals what society can sort, what harmony, or true delight?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“the most violent element in society is ignorance”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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