Famous Quotes

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Dwight D. Eisenhower 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

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

  Barbara Jordan on Society

More quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

• "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

• "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

• "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

• "The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

• "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."