Past Quote by John Dewey

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

— Amy Tan

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

— John Wilmot

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be…

— Henry Adams

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

— Doris Lessing

Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting…

— Clarence John Laughlin

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

— Roger Deakin

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

— Deepak Chopra

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each,…

— Anonymous

Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found…

— Jack London

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are…

— Seneca the Younger

“Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.”

— Peter F. Hamilton