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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

Henry David Thoreau 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 Henry David Thoreau

  • "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

  • "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

  • "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

  • "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

  • "The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

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