The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
In a neighbourhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
We rise by lifting others.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.