"The abstract concept "society" means to the individual human being the sum total of his direct and indirect relations to his contemporaries and to all the people of earlier generations. The individual is able to think, feel, strive, and work by himself; but he depends so much upon society—in his physical, intellectual, and emotional existence—that it is impossible to think of him, or to understand him, outside the framework of society. It is "society" which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, and most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labor and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present who are all hidden behind the small word “society.”"

"Mankind are not held together by lies. Trust is the foundation of society. Where there is no truth, there can be no trust, and where there is no trust, there can be no society. Where there is society, there is trust, and where there is trust, there is something upon which it is supported."

"It's not sex and drug advice these kids need, so much as help in acquiring a world view, in motivating them to take responsibility and enabling them to build proper relationships."

"The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell, That none decoy'd into that fatal ring, Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape. There we grow early gray, but never wise."

"In human society the warmth is mainly at the bottom."

"Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand."

"It is the retention by twentieth-century, men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village."

"The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice."

"What times! What manners!"

"But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends without any danger of a riot, he Might for long lying make himself amends; And singing as he sung in his warm youth, Agree to a short armistice with truth."

"A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one— And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all."

"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."

"The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism."

"The quest for other, and better, forms of life, society, technology, ethics, and law may not reveal that they are actually elsewhere; but it may in the long run help us to make some of them actual on earth."

"Building up societies with “dead souls” is no great achievement."

"I’ve inspected your profile. You are not stupid. Misguided, idealistic, naive, certainly, but not stupid. You must know how societies work. You must at least have an inkling. They work on force, power and coercion. People don’t behave themselves because they are nice. That’s the liberal fallacy. People behave themselves because if they don’t they will be punished. All this is known. It isn’t even debatable. Civilisation after civilisation, society after society, species after species, all show the same pattern. Society is control: control is reward and punishment. Reward is being allowed to partake of the fruits of that society and, as a general but not unbreakable rule, not being punished without cause."

"Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society."

"Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection."

"For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast."

"What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees."

"A person who cannot live in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a beast or a god."

"The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws."

"Knowledge belongs to the one who succeeds in mastering a language."

"Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees."

"From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk."

"The English language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever."

"Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language."

""We worked with a guy called Dr. Stuart Smith from UCLA and he’s an Egyptologist He put all this stuff on tape for us and it’s kind of the closest we can come to what we think the actual language sounded like. It’s like ancient Latin. When we speak Latin now we think it’s what it sounded like, but we’re not really sure. The problem with a lot of this Egyptian stuff is words like ‘look out’ become like 10 lines. Steve would go, ‘No, no, no. Lose the first four words. Say that word and then say the last word.’ So basically, I’d end up making the stuff up."

"Don Chaucer, well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled."

"Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam."

"Syllables govern the world."

"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached"

"L'accent est l'âme du discours, il lui donne le sentiment et la vérité."

"Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace à la tête d'un livre."

"La grammaire, qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois, Et les fait, la main haute, obéir à ses lois."

"Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels."

"L'accent du pays où l'on est né demeure dans l'esprit et dans le cœur comme dans le langage."

"Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."

"And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation."

"“A language, like a species, when extinct, never… reappears.”"

"Language is fossil poetry."

"Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows."

"And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?"

"Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company."

"Well languag'd Danyel."

"But to restrict thinking to the patterns merely of English […] is to lose a power of thought which, once lost, can never be regained. It is the 'plainest' English which contains the greatest number of unconscious assumptions about nature. […] We handle even our plain English with much greater effect if we direct it from the vantage point of a multilingual awareness."

"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscope flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds—and this means largely by the linguistic systems of our minds. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way—an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language [...] all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar, or can in some way be calibrated."

"An entire mythology is stored within our language."