Society Quotes

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency."

"Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact."

"The national ideals of India are renunciation and service."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa

"I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help."

Baba Amte

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"Hell is other people."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle."

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

Simone de Beauvoir

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

Virginia Woolf

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

Chinua Achebe

"Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world."

Paulo Freire

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife."

John Dewey

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

Bertrand Russell

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots."

Erich Fromm

"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

Carl Sagan

"Technology giveth and technology taketh away."

Neil Postman

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be."

"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life."

Confucius

"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

Kahlil Gibran

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."