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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians,
friends, lovers and husbands.
Author: Abigail Adams
Source: in a letter to John Adams
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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.
Author: Abigail Adams
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.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Civil and Moral--Of Friendship
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Man was formed for society.
Author: Francis Bacon
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.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Luria (act V, l. 334)
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But now being lifted into high society,
And having pick'd up several odds and ends
Of free thoughts in his travels for variety,
He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends,
That without any danger of a riot, he
Might for long lying make himself amends;
And singing as he sung in his warm youth,
Agree to a short armistice with truth.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 83)
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I'd rather be dead than cool.
Author: Kurt Cobain
Source: in the song "Stay Away"
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is
truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If
this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the
finish by loading honors on your head.
Author: Kurt Cobain
Source: in the song "Stay Away"
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Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Source: The Ways of the Hour (ch. VI)
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The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws
With magic wand. So potent is the spell,
That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,
Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.
There we grow early gray, but never wise.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 627)
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Author: Euripides
Source: Phoemissoe (frag. 809)
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy
can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
Author: Henry George
Source: Social Problems (ch. IX)
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The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and
dissipation without pleasure.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: Memoirs (vol. I, p. 116)
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The classes and the masses.
Author: Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
Source: a phrase used by him
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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Author: Ivan Illich
Source: Tools for Conviviality (ch. 3)
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.
Author: Ivan Illich
Source: Tools for Conviviality (ch. 3)
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I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as
to shun myself.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Rasselas (ch. XVI)
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The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being
bored.
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
Source: Les Caracteres (V)
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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
Author: John Lahr
Source: in the London "Guardian"
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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to
society.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: Captain Starkey
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well
is the great art of social life.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: Captain Starkey
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Don Quixote
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A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your
neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: Essays--Moore's Life of Lord Byron
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Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club
that will accept me as a member.
Author: Groucho Marx
Source: Groucho and Me (ch. 26)
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human
potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one
in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Author: Margaret Mead
Source: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
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Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Source: None
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Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp.
Author: Anon.
Source: None
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo- partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
Author: Arthur Koestler
Source: None
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Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
Author: B.h. Liddell Hart
Source: None
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Progress cannot be organized.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Source: None
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