Society
Nancy Astor on Change
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.”
James F. Byrnes on Life
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”
Abigail Van Buren on Society
“The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.”
Franklin P. Jones on Punctuality
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”
Louise Beal on Society
“Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.”
Mogens Jallberg on Democracy vs. Feudalism
“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; In feudalism it’s your count that votes.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Bertrand Russell on Happiness
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”
Mignon McLaughlin on Society
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
Oscar Wilde on Society
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Albert Einstein on Wisdom at Solving Problems
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Matthew Arnold on Society
“This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
Woodrow Wilson on Equality
“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
Randolph Bourne on Society
“Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.”
Anatole France on Law
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Dave Barry on Argument
“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.”
Thomas Sowell on History and Society
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Eric Hoffer on Freedom
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
William Feather on Society
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”
Fred Allen on Fame
“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.”
Esther Dyson on Internet
“The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.”
Victor Hugo on Society
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Wisdom Quote
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Results of our Actions
“A hundred years after we are gone and forgotten, those who never heard of us will be living with the results of our actions.”
Lyndon B. Johnson on Politics
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read ‘President Can’t Swim’.”