society Quotes

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.