Advancement Quote by Paul Collier

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

— Russell Kirk

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

— Frank Chodorov

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have…

— H. L. Mencken

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

— Marianne Faithfull

Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition,…

— Philip Roth

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the…

— Walter Lippmann

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing

— Edmund Burke

“We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessary…But social problems are rarely to be solved…

— Robert Penn Warren

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

— Cormac McCarthy

We need to start looking at what we can do as a society to set up men like Sir Lance and Ty and even…

— Daniel Beaty

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

— Frederick William Robertson