Action Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or saints. Others…

— Colin Wilson

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means…

— Heinrich Heine

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

— Alice Waters

It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that…

— Matthew Arnold

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour…

— Thomas Chalmers

In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.…

— Queen Elizabeth II

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

— Judith Martin

“Unless we have the courage to fight for a revival of wholesome reserve between man and man, we shall perish in an anarchy of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident. It can handle anything that comes along. Class has a sense of humor. It knows…

— Ann Landers

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called…

— Richard Hofstadter