Character Quote by N. C. Wyeth

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We have been assembled and fabricated into well-behaved students, predictable consumers, and obedient citizens. Most of what is feral has been domesticated. We suffocate…

— Gerry Spence

“Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist: they demand…

— George Eliot

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now…

— John Stuart Mill

Fewer people than you might think seem to have truly enjoyed their formative education and, for those who did not, one theme in particular…

— Dawn Foster

“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark…

— William Jones

“The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In…

— Arkady Strugatsky

“Children can’t see their budding lives through the long lens of wisdom – the wisdom that benefits from years passed, hurdles overcome, strength summoned,…

— Charles M. Blow

“However, there have always been “society pedagogues”, less outstanding but more numerous, who have become fascinated by their own great ideas, which might, sometimes,…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the…

— Alison Lurie