Famous Quotes About society

Everything can be taken from a man but...the last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest; a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

Real peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move.