Mark Twain Quotes About Society

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

• To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

  Mark Twain

  Graduation, Party, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.169, Univ of California Press

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

• The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

  Mark Twain

  Society, Skins, Demand

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.563, University of Alabama Press

• A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Lying, Society

• Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Intellectual, Society

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

• You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Society, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.276, Delphi Classics

• It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Society, Requirements

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

• You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Society, Tourism

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

• I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, People, Democracy

  1898 Notebook, ch.31, Feb ^ Mar.

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