Betterment Quotes
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
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More Betterment Quotes
He walked the earth generously spreading as much love and kindness in small ways, as well as big ways, as humanly possible. He was selfless with his heart, generous with his pocketbook, and most of all, he reached out with his spirit. ... Please remember that Richard Carlson left his own trail as he walked the earth and lived a life devoted to peace, love, and the betterment of humanity.
richard carlson— Kris Carlson, his widow, at the Richard Carlson Memorial Website
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
clarence darrow— The Railroad Trainman (November 1909)
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
johan huizinga— Ch. 2 (In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936))
Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic... Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.
julius nyerere— When he became prime minister of Tanganyika, September 1, 1960.
The alembic of English tolerance has operated by now on the newer arrivals as well. Their sons have taken part in English life, contributed to English achievement, striven for England's betterment, shed their blood in England's wars.
cecil roth— p.270 (A History of the Jews in England (3rd ed. 1964))
Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security , those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society , but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit , from peculiar station to peculiar station along life 's bittersweet route.
— Tom Robbins, in Jitterbug Perfume, Random House LLC, 17 June 2003, p.245
Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world.
— Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 183
