Famous Quotes

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

William Ralph Inge 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 William Ralph Inge

• "Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next."

• "Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

• "The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

• "True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

• "The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot."