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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

Henry Van Dyke 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 Van Dyke

  • "Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

  • "Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

  • "It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

  • "Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

  • "Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

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