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Bill Vaughan
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each
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Jane Elliot
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As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you don???t treat people justly, how can you expect them to love you?
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Alfred North Whitehead
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It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the
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Arnold J. Toynbee
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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Alvin Toffler
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
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Henry David Thoreau
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Thomas Szasz
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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Paul Sweeney
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
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George Bernard Shaw
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Carl Sandburg
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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Peter Medawar
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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Charles Kuralt
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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Barbara Jordan
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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John W. Gardner
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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Erich Fromm
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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Milton Friedman
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Raymond Chandler
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It is not a fragrant world.
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Omar N. Bradley
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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
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Jacques Barzun
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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Matthew Arnold
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
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Richard Hofstadter
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A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
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A. J. Liebling
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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Robert A. Heinlein
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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Jane Elliot
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As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you don???t treat people justly, how can you expect them to love you?
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W. H. Auden
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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Eric Idle
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it mu
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Francis Quarles
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Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
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Noam Chomsky
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Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.
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Kenneth Tynan
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The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
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Eric Idle
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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Paul Ingram
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A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning.
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Alexander Hamilton
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.
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G Gaia
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The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
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Orlando A. Battista
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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Irv Kupcinet
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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Johann von Goethe
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.
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B. F. Skinner
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Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
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Emma Goldman
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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Robert Frost
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I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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I greet you as the shapers of American society.
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Eric Hoffer
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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B. J. Gupta
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Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.
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Lee Iacocca
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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Aristotle
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
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George Orwell
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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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Sir Thomas Browne
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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Richard Royster
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Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.
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WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. iii.
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Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
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John Updike
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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Greek Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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Whoopi Goldberg
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This is the Mission Statement of the Brighton District Society (which she created).
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Erma Bombeck
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Albert Einstein
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Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.
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Roger Starr
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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
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James Russell Lowell
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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John Dewey
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Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
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Howard Mumford Jones
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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
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Johann von Goethe
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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John Lahr
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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
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Peter Drucker
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The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and opp
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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"An armed society is a POLITE society" --Robert A. Heinlein
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"An armed society is a polite society." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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"An armed society is a polite society." - Robert A. Heinlein
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If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: Thi
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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"An ARMED society is a POLITE society" -Heinlein
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Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
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"An armed society is a polite society." RAH
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"An armed society is a polite society." -- RAH
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Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
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Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
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What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.
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There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
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Ladies' Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society
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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.
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Choose heaven for climate, hell for society.
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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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(c) 1991 by the Great-Compu-Guru Society (tm)
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Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
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A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
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Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.
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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
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American Non-Sequitor Society - we don't make sense, but we do like pizza.
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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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