Clever Society Quotes

#1. My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Edith Wharton

#2. I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

Reif Larsen

#3. If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

Prince Charles

#4. Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

Doug King

#5. The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

Alfred Richard Orage

#6. The weak and the poor are for us a source of unity. Jesus came into the world to change and transform society from a "pyramid" in which the strong and clever dominate at the top, into a "body", where each member of society has a place, is respected and is important.

Jean Vanier

#7. How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

Jack Abramoff

#9. You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Calvin Coolidge

#10. I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

Mike Shinoda

#11. Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

Virginia Woolf

#12. To Educate is to Free.

Jose Marti

#13. You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Bryan Batt

#14. attend the auction - curators

Nicholas Sparks

#15. I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

Stendhal

#16. You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

Thomas Sowell

#17. While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Andy Stanley

#18. It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.

John D. MacDonald

#19. Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#21. I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling ...

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#22. In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. A net across the Little Trickle won't catch fish in the Watercress River.

Carol Kendall

#24. What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

John Armstrong