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29 Quotes About Society From Famous Figures

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The flâneur is an ambivalent figure that represents modernity and has the ability to remain removed from society in his wanderings. His detachment is exactly what makes him an apt observer of modern day life. Here’s a curated collection of some of the best quotes about Society, with quotations from famous writers, psychologists, philosophers and figures.

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As entrepreneurs, we often think about how to change society for the better. But sometimes it’s helpful to take a step back and analyze society and its pressures. In this blog post, we’ve collected 29 quotes about society from some of history’s most famous figures. From Aristotle to Hunter S. Thompson, these quotes offer a range of perspectives on our complex social fabric. We hope you enjoy them!

Quotes About Society

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world — impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.

Charles Baudelaire

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin

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

Marcus Aurelius

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.

Orison Sweet Marden

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain
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Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

Marcel Proust

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Hunter S. Thompson

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

George Bernard Shaw

We do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body.

Alan Watts
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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

Society is inside of man and man is inside society, and you cannot even create a truthfully drawn psychological entity on the stage until you understand his social relations and their power to make him what he is and to prevent him from being what he is not. The fish is in the water and the water is in the fish.

Arthur Miller

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

Aldous Huxley
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The principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature.

William Blackstone

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Mahatma Gandhi

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 

Henry David Thoreau
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Society is indeed a contract. It 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.

Edmund Burke

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Henry David Thoreau

Society is now one polish’d horde,

Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

No one would speak much in society if he were aware how often we misunderstand others.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde
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Leave the bustle and tumult of society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves without them.

Thomas Jefferson

No social stability without individual stability.

Aldous Huxley

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Erich Fromm

Man delights in society far more than do bees or herds.

Aristotle

Society is no comfort

To one not sociable.

William Shakespeare

A Final Word

It’s interesting to see the different ways that people view society. Some see it as a necessary evil, others see it as a tool for change.

Have any other quotes about society you’d add to the collection? Which is your favorite? Let us know in the comments!

You might also enjoy these related quote collections:

  • Quotes About Flaneurs
  • Quotes About the Mind
  • Quotes About Being Authentic and Authenticity
  • Quotes About Identity
  • Quotes About Life Obstacles and Barriers

Originally Published: March 26, 2021

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