Famous Quotes

"If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society."

Sargent Shriver 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 Sargent Shriver

• "As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it."

• "Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."

• "If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society."

• "Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"

• "Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight."