Quotes about Society"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King, Jr."The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. " -- Marshall McLuhan "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. " -- Arthur Miller "The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. " -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. " � Voltaire, Paraphrase of Voltaire's sentiments in his Essay on Tolerance "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. " -- Abraham Lincoln, From a letter to H. L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859. "A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. " -- Martin Luther King, Jr. From the book Where Do We Go From Here? (1967) "America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. " -- Jesse Jackson, From a speech to the U.S. Democratic Party convention in Atlanta, Georgia, July 1988 "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman." -- Willa Cather "In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill." -- Winston Churchill "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men." -- Jane Addams "What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors." -- Henry Becque "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. " -- George Bernard Shaw From the preface to Heartbreak House (1920) "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." -- Helen Keller, Published in the magazine The Atlantic Monthly, May 1890 |