Famous Quotes

"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole."

Baruch Spinoza 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 Baruch Spinoza

• "He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."

• "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

• "I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."

• "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

• "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."