Society Quotes
Shakespeare, Emerson, Rousseau, Milton and John Stuart Mill lead the page. The sourced picks include Shaw’s remark in O’Flaherty V.C. (1919) that you will never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race, and a Martin Luther King sermon from 1967 on a man who talked as if he could build his barns alone.
Three entries have flags. “One man with courage makes a majority” is credited to Andrew Jackson, and the notes say it has never been found in his writings. Robert Kennedy and Ronald Reagan both repeated the attribution. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” is credited to Dostoyevsky and flagged misattributed. The “I expect to pass through this world but once” passage, credited to Stephen Grellet, is disputed. The first known print is a June 1869 magazine, writing of an unnamed Quaker.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.
The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.
It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Societies, not states, are 'the social atoms' with which students of history have to deal.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable.