Society
The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.
Connection; participation; partnership.
A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.
The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.
Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.
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Society Quotations
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
Society Translations
society in Afrikaans is klub, samelewing, vereniging
society in Danish is selskab
society in Finnish is seura, kerho
society in Italian is comitiva
society in Latin is congregatio
society in Norwegian is forening
society in Portuguese is sociedade
society in Spanish is sociedad
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