Famous Quotes

"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."

Herbert Spencer 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 Spencer

• "The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."

• "In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."

• "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

• "Education has for its object the formation of character."

• "We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."