Famous Quotes

"The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

James Baldwin 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 James Baldwin

• "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone."

• "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

• "The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

• "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

• "But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."