Famous Quotes

"Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts."

George Osborne 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 George Osborne

• "The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government."

• "If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government."

• "It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch."

• "Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right."

• "I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me."