Society Quotes - Page 18

• Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Lying, Heart

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7646, Delphi Classics

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• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Purpose, Sake

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• Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Power, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Individualism, Should

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.947, Book House

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• Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,
  Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Divorce, Police, Wicked

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.1119, Oxford University Press

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• Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Children, Educational

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• If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.

  Nhat Hanh

  Family, Peace, War

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.10, Penguin

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• A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Glasses, Village, Hives

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• But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Destiny, Challenges, Finals

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, Government, Priorities

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• In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Character, Bridges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.488

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• The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Wheels, Morality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Culture, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.15, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, War, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.94, 谷月社

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• If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, House, Church

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”

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• We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.265, Bantam Classics

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• The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Wise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1230, Delphi Classics

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• The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Loss, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Freedom, Members, Oppressed

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• Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Conversation, Ceremony, Frivolous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Machines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Solitude, World

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• The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, People, Rose

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• The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

  Dorothea Dix

  Cutting, Design, Tapestry

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