Famous Quotes

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

James Russell Lowell 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 Russell Lowell

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

• "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

• "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

• "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."