Famous Quotes

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."

Carl Sandburg 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 Carl Sandburg

• "I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."

• "Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

• "Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."

• "All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

• "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."