Society
“The root of materialism is poverty; the well fed remain idealists”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“What you do for yourself dies with you
But what you do for others lives on and is immortal”
-Albert Pine
“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
“Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting”
-Sydney Harris
“A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated to fuel production is founded on trash and waste”
“Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it”
“When we treat a man as he is, he becomes worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already were what he could potentially be, we make him what he could be”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe