Community Quote by Albert J. Nock Download Open image “There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” — Albert J. Nock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community One way Units Way
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can. — Dale Murphy Copy Share Image
Humanity can only improve as people improve. When you have improved your life, you can inspire those around you to want to improve their… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world. — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement,… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“A free society may be seen to be bent in its entirety on exploring self-improvement” — Frans P.B. Osinga Copy Share Image
We're blaming the 'society', yet we are society. So to make it a better place, we must change ourselves first. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image