Famous Quotes

"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."

John Cheever 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 John Cheever

• "I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."

• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

• "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

• "When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."

• "Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."