Society can be defined as an organized system where individuals relate to each other. To some extent, your personality is genetically determined, but it largely depends on the shape of your society.
Explore our collection of quotes about society that will inspire you to form a society worth living in.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
– Oscar Wilde
Society Quotes
1. “You are called a social person only till you do not expose any evil of society.” – Nitin Namdeo
2. “Society is only for glorifying the rich.” – Nitin Namdeo
3. “In society, you are respected not on the basis of intelligence but on the basis of wealth.” – Nitin Namdeo
4. “I can’t believe how people living in an unjust society can call themselves social.” – Nitin Namdeo
5. “A person who ignores social evils cannot be a social person.” – Nitin Namdeo
6. “It is so easy for society to decline different opinions without examining them.” – Nitin Namdeo
7. “People of different opinions come together to form a society, but when one type of society directly rejects the opinion of another type of society, then it does not deserve to be called a society.” – Nitin Namdeo
8. “The upliftment of any society is not possible until its people are given liberal education.” – Nitin Namdeo
9. “A truly educated society will not lead its people on the basis of beliefs, but facts.” – Nitin Namdeo
10. “No society can tolerate a person with a different ideology and this is the only reason for infertility of any society.” – Nitin Namdeo
Famous Society Quotes
11. “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” – Angela Davis
12. “Every society has the criminals it deserves.” – Emma Goldman
13. “Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.” – Andre Gide
14. “It is in the nature of society to secure and defend the conditions of its own existence even against its members.” – Reinhard Bendix
15. “Gold is the key to society; but poverty its barrier.” – William Scott Downey
16. “Leave the bustle and tumult of society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves without them.” – Thomas Jefferson
17. “All societies end up wearing masks.” – Jean Baudrillard
18. “We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.” – George Bernard Shaw
19. “That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!” – Margaret Mitchell
20. “The most violent element in society is ignorance.” – Emma Goldman
21. “That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.” – Erich Fromm
22. “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.” – Confucius
23. “Women are the real architects of society.” – Cher
24. “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” – James Baldwin
25. “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
Inspirational Quotes About Society
26. “A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” – Vladimir Nabokov
27. “The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.” – Don DeLillo
28. “I think the first duty of society is justice.” – Alexander Hamilton
29. “At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all – not just those at the top.” – Rupert Murdoch
30. “A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.” – B. R. Ambedkar
31. “Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” – James Russell Lowell
32. “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” – Rollo May
33. “A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.” – Ralph Nader
34. “Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it’s a soft manipulator of influence and change.” – Kim Harrison
35. “Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.” – Henry George
36. “No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.” – Margaret Mead
37. “An ‘ideal society’ would be the graveyard of human greatness.” – Nicolas Gomez Davila
38. “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell
39. “In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.” – Ayn Rand
Best Society Quotes
41. “If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you’re always going to be disappointed.” – Madonna
42. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov
43. “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom.” – B. F. Skinner
44. “The society based on production is only productive, not creative.” – Albert Camus
45. “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46. “Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.” – Abraham Lincoln
47. “The role of art in society differs for every artist.” – Maya Lin
48. “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
49. “The only limits on scientific progress are those imposed by society.” – Nikola Tesla
50. “Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.” – Leslie Caron
51. “All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” – Albert Einstein
