Famous Quotes

"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

Henry Van Dyke 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 Van Dyke

• "Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

• "Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

• "It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

• "Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

• "Genius is talent set on fire by courage."