Famous Quotes

"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."

Oscar Wilde 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 Oscar Wilde

• "No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

• "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

• "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

• "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."