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Quotes About Balance

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
~ Gideon Welles
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
~ William Damon
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
~ Barbara Park
And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.
~ Malik Yoba
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
~ Terence McKenna
It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
~ Susan Cain
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.
~ Elinor Gadon
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
~ Ani DiFranco
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
~ Fareed Zakaria
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
~ Philip Yancey
When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.
~ Frederick Lenz
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
~ Victor Hugo
...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.
~ Robert Redford
There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.
~ Simon Calder
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
~ Seneca the Younger
I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.
~ Joan Severance
Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.
~ John Robbins
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.
~ Zicheng Hong