Redeeming Social Importance

Famous quotes containing the words redeeming, social and/or importance:

    “The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.”
    —Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)

    “In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)