Definition of Societies

Societies Quotations

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Thomas Malthus

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams