Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Jack Horner

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

David Scott

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

They're going from one end of society all the way to the other.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Richard Mitchell

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

Mark Twain

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

John Naisbitt

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Peter Drucker

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

Elie Wiesel

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

James Russell Lowell

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

James Russell Lowell

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Lucan

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Malcolm Muggeridge

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Maria Montessori

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Eric Hoffer

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

Eric Hoffer

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

Eric Hoffer

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Eric Hoffer

The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

Eric Hoffer

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

Eric Hoffer

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society does not love its unmaskers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Kofi Annan

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.