Famous Quotes

"The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers."

Adrienne Rich on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Adrienne Rich

• "They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

• "The moment of change is the only poem."

• "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

• "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

• "The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival."