Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Kelly Iyogun

Quote by Kelly Iyogun

“What little I know of philosophy and psychology wasn't gathered from books, but from the quiet observation of three things: how a man treats himself, how he treats his neighbour, and how he treats the earth beneath his feet.”

Quote by Kelly Iyogun

Create image

Author

Kelly Iyogun

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Kelly Iyogun. more

You May Also Like

“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. [Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood]”

InspirationalPoliticalPovertySocietyLes MisérablesVictor Hugo
Book:Les Misérables
Create image

“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives?”

WealthPovertyViolenceCrimeBritishStatisticsPowerlessHabitsStatusMotivesCrime Solving
Book:Ten Second Staircase
Create image

“Well, gentlemen, I have listened to all your Solutions, and I now inform you that I, and I alone, except perhaps for Walt Trowbridge and the ghost of Pareto, have the perfect, the inevitable, the only Solution, and that is: There is no Solution! There will never be a state of society anything like perfect! "There never will be a time when there won't be a large proportion of people who feel poor no matter how much they have, and envy their neighbors who know how to wear cheap clothes showily, and envy their neighbors who can dance or make love or digest better.”

PoliticsAnswersPovertySocietySolutionsPerfectionEnvyUtopia
Book:It Can't Happen Here
Create image