Best Social Commentary Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Let the systems be efficient. Let us be kind.”

“Every generation thinks it’s the last to care. But the soil holds proof of hands that worked before ours.”

“In those days the world was not a garden and the people were not idle as they are now. Then on the face of the world there was real wilderness, empty of humanity, and the wilderness that humanity created, the wilderness that it packed with itself and which it called City. People toiled and people idled and the toilers worked for themselves and yet not for themselves and the idle did no work or little work and what they did, did only for themselves; money was all-powerful then and people said they made it work for them but money cannot work, only people and machines can work.”

“It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.”

“Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”

“Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.”

“I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.”

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”