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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert Heinlein
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We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
Winston Churchill
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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.
Abigail Adams
Quotes , Source: in a letter to John Adams
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The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
Eric Hoffer
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
Dalai Lama
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek proverb
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail
Abraham Lincoln
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
G. B. Stern
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians,
friends, lovers and husbands.
Abigail Adams
Quotes , Source: in a letter to John Adams
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For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and
aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the
savage beast.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Essays--Civil and Moral--Of Friendship
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A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one--
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: Luria (act V, l. 334)
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