Society Quotes

"Ask not the caste of a sage, ask his knowledge; value the sword, and leave the sheath."

Kabir

"I want such a kingdom where all get food, where high and low live as equals; Ravidas would be happy there."

Guru Ravidas

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."

John Locke

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs."

John Stuart Mill

"In democracies, each new generation is a new people."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security."

Karl Popper

"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes."

Hannah Arendt

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

Margaret Atwood

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

James Baldwin

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."

Wangari Maathai

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

Paulo Freire

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Virginia Woolf

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

"We are all different, but we share the same human spirit."

Stephen Hawking

"Education is a human right with immense power to transform."

Kofi Annan

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

Jane Addams

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Kahlil Gibran

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal."

Victor Hugo

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank

"We were born to work together like the feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

Desmond Tutu