Famous Quotes

"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day."

Bill Vaughan 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 Bill Vaughan

• "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."

• "Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking."

• "Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."

• "Muscles come and go flab lasts."

• "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."