Famous Quotes

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society."

Charles Dickens 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 Charles Dickens

• "The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."

• "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

• "A boy's story is the best that is ever told."

• "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

• "Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."