Logo
Quote by Abbe Pierre
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, w

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one – You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. – Abbe Pierre

Other quotes by Abbe Pierre

Its true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. – Abbe Pierre

Category:
Technology
Author
Abbe Pierre
Read Quote

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. – Abbe Pierre

Category:
Men
Author
Abbe Pierre
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Society
category

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? – Irv Kupcinet

Category:
Society

The trouble is its very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. – Emma Thompson

Category:
Society

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

Category:
Society

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life. – Herschel Walker

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. – Grover Cleveland

Category:
Peace

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. – Henry Rollins

Category:
alone

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Category:
Success