Quotes About Balance

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.