"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."
― John W. Gardner
Topic(s):
Society
More From John W. Gardner
- "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
- "History never looks like history when you are living through it."
- "America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
More In Society
- "It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance."― Baldwin Spencer
- "In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."― Karl Marx
- "It is not a fragrant world."― Raymond Chandler