In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.