(1013 quotes found)
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.”
Ben Sweetland
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
Cesar Chavez
“Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion; a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person; and a young wife is poison to an aged man.”
Chanakya
“I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
Roger Baldwin
“They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.”
George W. Bush
“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.”
Lee Iacocca