Improving Society Quotes

Oh how hard it is to die and leave one’s Country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

I am not an educator and I'm not a journalist. I am a comedian. But I do truly believe that the point of comedy is to make the world around one better.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds.