Society Quotes

"Good fences make good neighbors."

Robert Frost

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."

Robert Frost

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

Malcolm X

"Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual."

"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."

Sarojini Naidu

"I am an invisible man... simply because people refuse to see me."

Ralph Ellison

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Harper Lee

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness."

Charles Dickens

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy

"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."

Andrew Carnegie

"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Man is a child of his customs, not the child of his nature."

Ibn Khaldun

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

Simone Weil

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"

Fred Rogers

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

Mark Twain

"More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."

Charlie Chaplin

"The world exists because of people of good character; without them it would crumble into dust."

Thiruvalluvar

"I have always believed that the greatest asset of a nation is its people."

Verghese Kurien

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

Frederick Douglass

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

W. E. B. Du Bois

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

Albert Schweitzer