Famous Quotes

"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."

Jean de la Bruyere 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 Jean de la Bruyere

• "They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

• "All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

• "All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

• "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."

• "At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."