“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.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The law is an adroit mixture of
“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
Author: Peter Kropotkin
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In the past, human society provided encouragement
“In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.”
— Daisaku Ikeda
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
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After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor,
“After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.”
— Eliot Spitzer
Author: Eliot Spitzer
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A nation is a society united by
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”
— William Ralph Inge
Author: William Ralph Inge
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in
“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
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No one would talk much in society
“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
— Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund Burke
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These groups within a society can he
“These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.”
— Herbert Read
Author: Herbert Read
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Thanks to my mother, not a single
“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
Author: Erma Bombeck
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All that is valuable in human society
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
— Albert Einstein
Author: Albert Einstein
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