Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas PaineMilitant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
Rush LimbaughEvery man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert CamusSociety is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emile M. CioranThe society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert CamusA world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret ThatcherAll men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First have a definite clear practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve it.
AristotleI 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 GandhiSolitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell LowellAmerican public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert H. HumphreyI feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
Mike TysonHow strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves, but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.
Marcus AureliusIt is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen KellerThe minority is sometimes right, the majority always wrong.
George Bernard ShawThe sooner every party breaks up the better.
Jane AustenIf all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin FranklinHealthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma GandhiWhere 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 TwainI can calculate the motion of heavenly, bodies but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonEducation is a social process, education is growth, education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.
John DeweyIf 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 ThoreauAmerica is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Woodrow WilsonIn revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interest are at stake.
AristotleNo culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma GandhiCompassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert H. HumphreyThe 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 CouplandWe have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control, when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
Henry MillerCommon 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 WildeNo one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
HeraclitusA dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state.
William BlakeThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James Arthur BaldwinI believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.
John DeweyCapital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl MarxDemocracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
Reinhold NiebuhrIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl SaganThere is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen KellerIf liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
AristotleWhere an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane AustenIncrease of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mahatma GandhiWe cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert SchweitzerWar kills men and men deplore the loss, but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb ColtonOur 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 LincolnEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane AustenOne can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
AristotleI 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 LincolnThe public have neither shame or gratitude.
William HazlittSocial progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl MarxUntil the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen KellerIf you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar WildeAmerica's a very traumatized society.
Alanis MorissetteIf once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham LincolnI had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David ThoreauHumans are not proud of their ancestors and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas AdamsIf you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
Brian TracyIn the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint AugustineThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother TeresaTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John BurroughsIn order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert EinsteinAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Benjamin FranklinSociety is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
George SantayanaI believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Billy GrahamIt will, I believe, be everywhere found that as the clergy are or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane AustenMen of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis BaconThe heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen KellerThe 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 MillHe who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
AristotleEducate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin FranklinIn my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David ThoreauThe ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Henry Ward BeecherWe laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. LewisIt 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 MarxSavages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin FranklinBy giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar WildeAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth, next to humans.
E. O. WilsonIs the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph CampbellWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark TwainWhy was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar WildeNationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert EinsteinFrom hence let fierce contending nations know what dire effects from civil discord flow.
Joseph AddisonThe 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 IIMen of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief, a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. GardnerIn the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor W. AdornoOur society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
Billy GrahamIn 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 BabaIn 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 ObamaIt 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 BabaThis 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 ByronThat'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 RyanThe aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
John Dewey