Famous Quotes

"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."

Shirley Chisholm 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 Shirley Chisholm

• "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."

• "At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."

• "At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."