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“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa Quotes |
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“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death”
Andre Gide Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
Robert Frost Quotes |
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Greek proverb Quotes |
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“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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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“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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“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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“Man was formed for society.”
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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“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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 83)
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“I'd rather be dead than cool.”
Kurt Cobain Quotes 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.”
Kurt Cobain Quotes Source: in the song "Stay Away"
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“Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.”
James Fenimore Cooper Quotes 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.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 627)
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“Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”
Euripides Quotes 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.”
Henry George Quotes Source: Social Problems (ch. IX)
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“The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and
dissipation without pleasure.”
Edward Gibbon Quotes Source: Memoirs (vol. I, p. 116)
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“The classes and the masses.”
Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone Quotes 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.”
Ivan Illich Quotes Source: Tools for Conviviality (ch. 3)
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