Quotes: society
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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
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Anyway, 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.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism - that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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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.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Edward M. Forster
English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist
1879-1970
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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