Famous Quotes

"Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills."

George McGovern 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 George McGovern

• "My dad was a Methodist minister."

• "Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

• "I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society."

• "Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner."

• "I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government."