Famous Quotes

"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society."

Hubert H. Humphrey 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 Hubert H. Humphrey

• "This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."

• "We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

• "Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

• "I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

• "Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."