Famous Quotes

"Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in."

Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Mary Wollstonecraft

• "The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."

• "In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century."

• "Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

• "Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in."

• "Virtue can only flourish among equals."