Famous Quotes

"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"

Honore de Balzac 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 Honore de Balzac

• "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

• "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

• "If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

• "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."

• "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."