In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
ConfuciusThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert EinsteinNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham LincolnSome rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
William ShakespeareEveryone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo CoelhoThe best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham LincolnOne of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. Important rules are dictated by our hearts.
Paulo CoelhoClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark TwainThe mother is the pillar of the home, of society, of the nation, and so of humanity itself.
Sai BabaIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinCivilization is the encouragement of differences.
Mahatma GandhiIn matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiI claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma GandhiIf all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin FranklinWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Kahlil GibranPublic opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham LincolnGiving the best to others is giving the best to ourselves. The value of life is not based on how long we live, but how much we can contribute to others in our society.
BuddhaThe basis of a democratic state is liberty.
AristotleOne can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything, except a good reputation.
Oscar WildePrinciples have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark TwainIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauIn revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interest are at stake.
AristotleThe assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham LincolnAmericans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common, except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Doug CouplandAll who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
AristotleCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert EinsteinWhen red-haired people are above a certain social grade, their hair is auburn.
Mark TwainIf one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar WildeA dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state.
William BlakeCapital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl MarxIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiOur defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham LincolnI am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham LincolnSocial progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl MarxI had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David ThoreauIn order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert EinsteinIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis BaconThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart MillIt is not best that we should all think alike, it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark TwainThe problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.
Rabindranath TagoreThe tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice
Rabindranath TagoreNo civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Rabindranath TagoreThe meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl MarxThe great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul III find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William CongreveOne of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.
Pope John Paul IIIn bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl MarxTwitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
Paulo CoelhoIn the first stage of boyhood he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that he has to serve the Guru and obey him without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security, he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care, he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.
Sai BabaNothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess DianaIn December I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack ObamaEveryone seeks to know what good he can derive from other individuals or from society.
Sai BabaProgressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador DaliVirtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
Sai BabaIt is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered human values can grow only in a spiritual soil.
Sai BabaIn the society where people are just parts in a larger machine individuals are unable to develop fully.
Friedrich SchillerThis place is the Devil or at least his principal residence they call it the University but any other appellation would have suited it much better for study is the last pursuit of the society, the Master eats drinks and sleeps the Fellows drink dispute and pun the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
Lord ByronTruth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas JeffersonThat's what the Romney plan is all about how to get jobs created how to get this debt and deficit under control how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul RyanI know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas JeffersonPeople are very reluctant to talk about their private lives, but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
Paulo Coelho