Famous Quotes

"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."

Edmund Burke 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 Edmund Burke

• "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

• "The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

• "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

• "Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

• "Beauty is the promise of happiness."