Quotes about Society
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
— Francis Schaeffer
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
— Henry David Thoreau
Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
— Oscar Wilde
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
— Oscar Wilde
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
— Oscar Wilde
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
— Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
— Oscar Wilde
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
— Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
— Oscar Wilde
Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.
— Oscar Wilde