Society Quotes

"Civilization must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity."

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"Without education, wisdom was lost; without wisdom, morals were lost; without morals, development was lost; without development, wealth was lost. So much has happened through lack of education."

Jyotirao Phule

"Awake, arise and educate. Smash traditions – liberate!"

Savitribai Phule

"Gain freedom through education, gain strength through organization."

Sree Narayana Guru

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling."

John Stuart Mill

"Society is not a mere sum of individuals."

Émile Durkheim

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."

Margaret Mead

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

Hannah Arendt

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Albert Einstein

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."

Leo Tolstoy

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Victor Hugo

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

Charles Dickens

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

George Orwell

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Ray Bradbury

"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

James Baldwin

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

Frederick Douglass

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

Jane Addams

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart."

Dorothy Day

"We are members of one great body, planted by nature in a mutual love."

Seneca

"What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."