Institutions Quote by Anonymous

“How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?”

— John Janzen

“Societies are mediocre, individuals are excellent.”

— Amit Kalantri

“My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions…

— Richard D. Kahlenberg

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”

— Adam Smith

“The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.”

— Mark Sagoff

“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out…

— Benjamin Franklin

“You could not arrive at excellence by the average of these people. Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward…

— Paul Collier

“What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considered somewhat worthy of reverence by society.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.”

— Nikolai Gogol

“We are only as great as the least among us.”

— Marjory Sheba

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”

— Leo Tolstoy