Intoxicating Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?”

— Honoré de Balzac

“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Anonymous

“people do noble things.”

— Johnny B. Truant

“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.”

— Mensah Oteh

“No caste system or aristocracy has survived the centuries with its power intact. Humanity kneels poorly as a whole.”

— Glynn Stewart

“The sign of a good society is one that protect its weakest. The strong can always look after themselves.”

— Dave Courtney

“There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.”

— Sam Torode

“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

“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within…

— J.G. Ballard