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| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
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| Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. Eric Bently Quotes |
| Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one’s niche in the world. Society, as we have seen, is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. Randolph Silliman Bourne Quotes |
| "Our true ancestry is the emergent creativity of the universe. Our forebears were the great inventors who 'learned' how to coalesce hydrogen and helium into stars, to form planets, to sustain life first from mineral nutrients in the sea and later to capture delicious photons, to exploit oxygen for energy rather than be exterminated by it, to diversify via sexual reproduction, to form social groups for greater security and protection of offspring. We are the beneficiaries (and, admittedly, also the victims) of this narrative of emergence. Our 'companions' — abstract as this must sound to the uninitiated — are all of these progenitors. Indeed they are more than companions; they are family. From them we have inherited our corporeal shapes and movements, our body chemistry, and even some of our behavioral agendas." John Brewer Quotes |
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| Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own. Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Quotes |
| "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." Charles Horton Cooley Quotes |
| "The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality." John Dewey Quotes |
| 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? Jane Elliot Quotes |
| "Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness." Erich Fromm Quotes |
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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 thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| "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." John W. Gardner Quotes |
| The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods. Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
| [additional note: According to Hugh Sidey, in A Very Personal Presidency (1968), the slogan, “Great Society,” had been current for several years, but was adopted for Johnson by Richard N. Goodwin, Secretary General of the Interational Peace Corps Secretariat and occasional speechwriter. It became a keynote of Johnson’s presidency, stressed by him in his acceptance speech at the Democratic Party National Convention, August 1964.] Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
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| "Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top." Timothy Leary Quotes |
| There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing…is the establishment of hierarchical societies, consisting of masters and slaves, and where one part of the population is make to work for the other part. Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes |
| "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." George Orwell Quotes |
| “Not only are all human systems dysfunctional, they are also outmoded since they were created for a context of insufficiency, separateness and fear. Since the emerging paradigm is about inter-connectivity, love and enough, our social systems need to be radically transformed to be functional and effective.” John Renesch Quotes |
| In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest. Mark Twain Quotes |
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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 maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
| We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams Quotes |
| I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. Reuben Blades Quotes |
| When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? Chuck Palahniuk Quotes |
| One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. Louis Kronenberger Quotes |
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| It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti Quotes |
| Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. Swami Nirmalananda Quotes |
| 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. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. Octavio Paz Quotes |
| The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. Philip Wylie Quotes |
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| I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. Steven Wright Quotes |
| There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. Astrid Alauda Quotes |
| What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. David Harris Quotes |
| We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. Author Unknown Quotes |
| If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Lily Tomlin Quotes |
| Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly Quotes |
| Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? William Lloyd Garrison Quotes |
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| Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort Quotes |
| A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower, first inaugural ad Quotes |
| It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here? Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technolog Quotes |
| Few great men could pass Personnel. Paul Goodman Quotes |
| You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. Octave Mirbeau Quotes |
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| It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. Malcolm Potts, MD Quotes |
| There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughn Quotes |
| The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. Lowell Quotes |
| Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes |
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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. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love. Whitney Moore, Jr. Quotes |
| When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. Betty Bender Quotes |
| Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. Greg Egan, "Distress" Quotes |
| People have become as processed as food. Astrid Alauda Quotes |
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| In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Carl Sandburg Quotes |
| Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. Author Unknown Quotes |
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost Quotes |
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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. Peter Medawar Quotes |
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| Mammalia, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. Ellen Frankfort Quotes |
| You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald Quotes |
| Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. Havelock Ellis Quotes |
| The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination. Unknown Quotes |
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| It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. Groucho Marx Quotes |
| We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. Adam Clayton Powell Quotes |
| 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 with our blankies for a nap. Robert Fulghum Quotes |
| The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Omar Bradley Quotes |
| Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time. M. Robin D'Antan Quotes |
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| Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. Paul Morand Quotes |
| We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. Alfred E. Newman Quotes |
| The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials. John Fischer Quotes |
| Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down. John W. Gardner Quotes |
| The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery Quotes |
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| What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works." William Faulkner, address, Wellesley, Ma Quotes |
| Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. Robert C. Savage Quotes |
| Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. Charlie Diekatze Quotes |
| When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. George Boas Quotes |
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein Quotes |
| Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Charles Wagner Quotes |
Commuter - one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.
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| Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. Thurman Arnold Quotes |
| You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. Garrison Keillor Quotes |
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| The year is 2006. The world has changed in about 364 significant ways since you started reading this sentence. Ed Northstrum Quotes |
| Fame is proof that the people are gullible. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. Lady Bird Johnson Quotes |
| So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. Henry George Quotes |
| One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. Alvin Toffler Quotes |
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| The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. Ronald Firbank Quotes |
| Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries. M. Robin D'Antan Quotes |
| We get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real. Robert C. Pollock Quotes |
| Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. Charles Francis Adams Quotes |
| The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster Quotes |
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| The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. Henry Miller Quotes |
| Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here? Brock Fiant Quotes |
| Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. Aldous Huxley Quotes |
Flowers don't open to the clock
but to the sunshine spontaneous;
for modern humans that manner
of instinct is now extraneous.
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| People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes |
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| The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. Alan Gregg Quotes |
| I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. Will Rogers Quotes |
| I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. Christiaan Barnard Quotes |
| Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. John Haynes Holmes Quotes |
| The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. Edmund Burke Quotes |
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| Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period. Carrie Latet Quotes |
| Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that. Li Ka Shing Quotes |
| [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is The Committee room. J.K. Galbraith Quotes |
| If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. Russell P. Askue Quotes |
| With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
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| The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. Norman Douglas Quotes |
| There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds." Ernie Kovacs Quotes |
| [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. Will and Ariel Durant Quotes |
| Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker Quotes |
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Society is now one polish'd horde,
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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| I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man. Stephen Vincent Benét Quotes |
| The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. Cesare Pavese Quotes |
| The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. Charles W. Tobey Quotes |
| The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. Russell Baker, New York Times, 1 May 196 Quotes |
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| Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness. D.H. Mondfleur Quotes |
| 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. Thomas Szasz Quotes |
| The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. George Orwell Quotes |
| It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
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| Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion. Mark van Doren Quotes |
| Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly. Andrew Young Quotes |
It is madness beyond compare
To try to reform the world.
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| In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Robert Greene Ingersoll, "The New Te Quotes |
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| The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. Harold J. Laski Quotes |
| The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
| I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating. D.H. Lawrence Quotes |
| In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late. Kin Hubbard Quotes |
| Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship. Thomas F. Eagleton Quotes |
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| The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities? Emma Goldman Quotes |
| I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "On the Quotes |
| We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has. Gamaliel Bradford Quotes |
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| The secret to living contently and sanely in this modern world is to... find the beautiful in the ugly - but don't get confused which is which. Leslie Grimutter Quotes |
| I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands. E.B. White Quotes |
| If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs. Oliver Herford Quotes |
| How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? Paul Sweeney Quotes |
| Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
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Final Ruin fiercely drives
Her ploughshare o'er creation.
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| Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. Erik Pepke Quotes |
| There are more doctors in a single North Shore medical building than in one entire West Side ghetto. Jack Starr Quotes |
| 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. Arnold Toynbee Quotes |
| Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. Norman O. Brown Quotes |
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| You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. From the movie Quotes |
| American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age. Marshall McLuhan Quotes |
| You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. Earl Wilson Quotes |
| You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. Charles Kuralt Quotes |
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| If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. George Orwell Quotes |
| No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. Dave Barry Quotes |
| [A] science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life. Harold Hardy Godfrey Quotes |
| It's difficult to view the world outside our human context. Staying alive and paying the bills both require our attention squarely fixed on our own business. Our sprawling cities and suburbs are wonderful and frightening tributes to creative self-absorption. In them, we spend our microscheduled days bustling between work and the endless details of our private lives, turning in our moments of rest to the buzzing distractions of television and computers - all accelerating toward some ultimate, unseen fulfillment of convenience and hyperreality. Little encourages us to pause and look around, much less question the end goal of all our busyness. Anything slower than the quick cuts of TV commercials is overwhelmed by our impatience and short attention. Unfortunately, we might be missing something important - to our happiness and to our survival. The purpose of this book is to help remind us. From the introduction to Quotes |
| The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr., Quotes |
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| My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes. Carrie Latet Quotes |
| Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all. Fred Allen Quotes |
| Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas Szasz Quotes |
| The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Ea Quotes |
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| In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. Jack Horner, on the eighty years between Quotes |
| Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death. Carrie Latet Quotes |
| Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. Julian Green Quotes |
| A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. H.L. Mencken Quotes |
| Somehow among all our use of antibiotic medicine and antibacterial soap our souls are becoming sanitized as well - don't let it happen to you! Brock Fiant Quotes |
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| Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all. Norbert Wiener Quotes |
| Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. Erwin Chargaff Quotes |
| I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. Earl Warren, quoted in Quotes |
| When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice." Author Unknown Quotes |
| It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. Jacques Barzun Quotes |
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| On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. Jon Stewart Quotes |
| Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife. Arianna Stassinopoulos Quotes |
| Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. Norbert Wiener Quotes |
| Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. Benjamin R. Barber Quotes |
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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. Bill Vaughan Quotes |
| The world is changing so fast I've got societal vertigo. The Quote Garden Quotes |
| If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold Quotes |
| In this prostituting society, we all have to hustle, and I'd rather suck cock than kiss ass! Margo St. James, attributed Quotes |
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| The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear. Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes |
| We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman Quotes |
| Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Rollo May Quotes |
| Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. Nicholas Meyer Quotes |
| Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Mother Teresa Quotes |
| To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. Robert Frost Quotes |
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| No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P. J. O'Rourke Quotes |
| My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John Lennon Quotes |
| A society without religion is like a vessel without compass. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual Albert Einstein Quotes |
| 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. Aristotle Quotes |
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| Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand Quotes |
| Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand Quotes |
| Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death Andre Gide Quotes |
| It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes |
| If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. Zig Ziglar Quotes |
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| In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos T. Alan Armstrong Quotes |
| One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence. Thomas Sowell Quotes |
| A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| An inspired, concerned and loving society will dignify man; will find the ways to develop his talent; will put the fruits of his labor and intellect to effective use; will achieve brotherhood; eliminate bigotry and intolerance; will care for the indigent, the delinquent, the sick, the aged; seek the truth and communicate it; respect differences among man. James Rouse Quotes |
| Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. John Lennon Quotes |
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| (Bias against the Negro) is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. William Sloane Coffin Jr. Quotes |
| Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi Quotes |
| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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| The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. Marlo Thomas Quotes |
| When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Quotes |
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| It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Thomas Browne Sr. Quotes |
| If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes |
| 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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| Solitude is often the best society Proverb Quotes |
| I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. Aristotle Quotes |
| Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. Confucius Quotes |
| 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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| If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes |
| The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. Warren Buffett Quotes |
| Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population the intelligent ones or the fool Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
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| AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals Jerry Falwell Quotes |
| It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes |
| Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society Karl Marx Quotes |
| What's done to children, they will do to society Karl Menninger Dr. Quotes |
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| We won't have a society if we destroy the environment Margaret Mead Quotes |
| Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. Thomas Szas Quotes |
| Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Edward Abbey Quotes |
| I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. Elijah Wood Quotes |
| Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S Truman Quotes |
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| The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. Orson Welles Quotes |
| America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes |
| To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. Albert Camus Quotes |
| The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed James Madison Quotes |
| The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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| In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. Karl Marx Quotes |
| 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. W. H. Auden Quotes |
| Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| The most violent element in society is ignorance. Emma Goldman Quotes |
| The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw. François R. Chateaubriand Quotes |
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| Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has Randolph Bourne Quotes |
| Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The public school has become the established church of secular society. Ivan Illich Quotes |
| God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. D.H. Lawrence Quotes |
| Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a "type of weevil." Dave Barry Quotes |
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| The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times? I consider myself a fortunate man to have a forum for my curiosity. Bill Moyers Quotes |
| Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will. Virginia Woolf Quotes |
| One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. Susan Howitch Quotes |
| The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. Henry Steele Commager Quotes |
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| My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence John Adams Quotes |
| We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes |
| Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes |
| 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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| In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx Quotes |
| The surface of American Society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. Anwar Sadat Quotes |
| Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. C. Wright Mills Quotes |
| Women are the real architects of society. Cher Quotes |
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| Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it Henry Thomas Buckle Quotes |
| In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy Ivan Illich Quotes |
| Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. Octavio Paz Quotes |
| If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. Louis Lecoin Quotes |
| A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. James Madison Quotes |
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| There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron Quotes |
| Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. B. F. Skinner Quotes |
| My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them. Dennis Prager Quotes |
| The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
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| If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. Howard Zinn Quotes |
| A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. Ralph Nader Quotes |
| Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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| They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes |
| The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. William Wordsworth Quotes |
| The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers David Boaz Quotes |
| Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Valerie Solanas Quotes |
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| There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas Robert Lynd Quotes |
| Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. Robert Owen Quotes |
| A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Robert Frost Quotes |
| Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Karl Marx Quotes |
| One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes |
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| Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. Ernst Fischer Quotes |
| The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc Eugene Ionesco Quotes |
| Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. Evelyn Cunningham Quotes |
| You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer Frank Zappa Quotes |
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| Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. Henry Steele Commager Quotes |
| All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. John Cheever Quotes |
| I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true? Paulo Coelho Quotes |
| The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ''social worker'' -judge. Michel Foucault Quotes |
| Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation. Bill Clinton Quotes |
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| Society does not punish those who sin, but those who sin and conceal not cleverly Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. A. Whitney Brown Quotes |
| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short Thomas Hobbes Quotes |
| A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Dr. Carl Sagan Quotes |
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| Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. Emily Bronte Quotes |
| The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. Irving R. Kaufman Quotes |
| The feminist movement was created to allow ugly women access to the mainstream of society Rush Limbaugh Quotes |
| No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society Naomi Wolf Quotes |
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| Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. Erma Bombeck Quotes |
| There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity. Antonin Artaud Quotes |
| True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. Edward O. Wilson Quotes |
| If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names Elaine Gill Quotes |
| The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. Emma Goldman Quotes |
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| No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always comes interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals. Frank Herbert Quotes |
| People, who rise above their petty individual selfishness and work for the welfare of society are considered patriots. Sam Veda Quotes |
| The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise Robert Frost Quotes |
| In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility. Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes |
| It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. Johnny Rotten Quotes |
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| The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II Quotes |
| I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes |
| A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. Cornel West Quotes |
| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. Thomas Paine Quotes |
| Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins Tom Stoppard Quotes |
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| Music is always a commentary on society. Frank Zappa Quotes |
| Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Salman Rushdie Quotes |
| Draft registration destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
| To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke Quotes |
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| Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. John Naisbitt Quotes |
| I think the first duty of society is justice Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. Alice Walker Quotes |
| The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt Betty Friedan Quotes |
| All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. William Bernbach Quotes |
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| Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous. Jerome K. Jerome Quotes |
| Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams Quotes |
| The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. Peter Kropotkin Quotes |
| A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society Juanita Kidd Stout Quotes |
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| Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. Kofi Annan Quotes |
| Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands Eugene Debs Quotes |
| You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches. Frank Deford Quotes |
| A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society Frederick The Great Quotes |
| 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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| Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. J. B. Priestley Quotes |
| The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes |
| Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. John Burroughs Quotes |
| Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. Johnny Rotten Quotes |
| 35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela Quotes |
| The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human. Andrea Dworkin Quotes |
| Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction. Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes |
| Society is no comfort to one not sociable. William Shakespeare Quotes |
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| You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. George Sand Quotes |
| Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
| Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. Kent Conrad Quotes |
| There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society. Erich Fromm Quotes |
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| The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. George Orwell Quotes |
| And opening my eyes I am afraid of courseto look--this inward look that society scorns--Still I search in these woods and find nothing worsethan myself, caught between the grapes and the thorns. Anne Sexton Quotes |
| Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. B. R. Ambedkar Quotes |
| In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard’s canvases – beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. Anne Rice Quotes |
| A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
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| The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
| Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. Herbert Spencer Quotes |
| Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. Pope John Paul II Quotes |
| As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. Albert Camus Quotes |
| I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library Lord Byron Quotes |
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| To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. Alan Paton Quotes |
| This society is machine-operated and corporate-driven Bella Lewitsky Quotes |
| The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes |
| When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. Carl Sandburg Quotes |
| War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
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| People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society. Vince Lombardi Quotes |
| The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
| Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it Howard Mumford Jones Quotes |
| Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion? Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one Karl Marx Quotes |
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| Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon. William Zinsser Quotes |
| Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight. Gore Vidal Quotes |
| An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
| Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole Mao Tse-Tung Quotes |
| Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. Margaret Atwood Quotes |
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| I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. Erma Bombeck Quotes |
| Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. Jim Rohn Quotes |
| If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in Thomas Merton Quotes |
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| Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere Thomas S. Szasz Quotes |
| People who claim that sentencing a murderer to "life without the possibility of parole" protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore three things: (1) life without the possibility of parole does not mean life without the possibility of escape or (2) life without the possibility of killing while in prison or (3) life without the possibility of a liberal governor being elected and issuing a pardon. Thomas Sowell Quotes |
| Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. Sri Sathya Sai Baba Quotes |
| What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
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| I am always talking about the human condition and about American Society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted Maya Angelou Quotes |
| The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods. Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
| To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
| So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I had been screaming about the drug war and this war and other wars. I should have been more on terrorism, too. So should you, so should everybody. Bill Maher Quotes |
| We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. Angela Davis Quotes |
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| With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. Antonin Artaud Quotes |
| There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential. William Orville Douglas Quotes |
| When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time. William H. Rehnquist Quotes |
| The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Thomas Sowell Quotes |
| Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should n Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. George F. Will Quotes |
| Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
| Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Quotes |
| An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
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| I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. Bill Lee Quotes |
| A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. Daisaku Ikeda Quotes |
| If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in his heart, he is an unethical member. To me, the ethics of medical practice is as simple as that. Dr. Elmer Hess Quotes |
| No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Eugene Ionesco Quotes |
| In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. Salvador DalĂ Quotes |
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| The family has always been the cornerstone of American Society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are The Foundation of our freedoms. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams Quotes |
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