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)

    Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth!
    Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)