Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Sigmund Freud

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Zig Ziglar

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Alex Haley

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Alice Walker

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Deepak Chopra

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Donald E. Westlake

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

Eric Schlosser

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Friedrich Schiller

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Georg Henrik von Wright

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

Gao Xingjian

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Herta Muller

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Herbert Read

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Jacob Bronowski

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter