Society Quotes
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No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.
Leo Strauss
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Jo Brand
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I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.
Eddie Pepitone
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I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.
Jerry Heller
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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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As far as I can see, many people who don’t have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring.
Edward Hallowell
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Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden
R. A. Salvatore
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The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
William Winwood Reade
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If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
Paul Hawken
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A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.
Alex Carey
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Cooperation is just as important and just as prevalent in human society as competition.
Alex Pentland
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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
Octavio Paz
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Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone - that of the state. In each man's absolute freedom from every family and social authority, a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state. In the complete equality as between themselves of all citizens, paid for by their equal abasement before the power of their absolute master - the state. In the disappearance of every constraint which does not emanate from the state, and in the denial of every pre-eminence which is not approved by the state. In a word, it ends in the atomization of society, and in the rupture of every private tie linking man and man, whose only bond is now their common bondage to the state. The extremes of individualism and socialism meet: that was their predestined course.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
Honore de Balzac
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Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
Bill O'Reilly
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Ivan Illich
