Famous Quotes

"I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

Henry David Thoreau 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 Henry David Thoreau

• "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

• "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

• "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

• "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

• "The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."