Society Quotes

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."

"Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

Jean Paul Richter

"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers."

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family."

Mother Teresa

"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."

Pope John Paul II

"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

Saint Augustine

"Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought."

John Rawls

"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream."

Harry Kemp

"The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice."

Bryan Stevenson

"Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done."

Bryan Stevenson

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

Andy Warhol

"We expect more from technology and less from each other."

Sherry Turkle

"Buy less, choose well, make it last."

Vivienne Westwood

"Advertising is legalized lying."

H. G. Wells

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

George Orwell

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

George Jean Nathan

"It is our privilege to be allowed to be charitable, for only so can we grow."

"We live in the world when we love it."

"Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world."

"Whatever be the religion, it suffices if it makes a better man."

Sree Narayana Guru

"All revolutions are spiritual at the source."

Vinoba Bhave