Famous Quotes

"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."

John Locke 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 Locke

• "To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."

• "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

• "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."

• "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

• "Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."