Famous Quotes

"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."

Herbert Read 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 Herbert Read

• "The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."

• "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."

• "Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."

• "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."

• "The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough."