“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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All literary men are Red Sox fans
“All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
— John Cheever
Author: John Cheever
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No society can surely be flourishing and
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
— Adam Smith
Author: Adam Smith
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A society deadened by a smothering network
“A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.”
— Robert Bork
Author: Robert Bork
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No power in society, no hardship in
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”
— William Ellery Channing
Author: William Ellery Channing
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In a free society the state does
“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”
— Walter Lippmann
Author: Walter Lippmann
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I have spent all my life under
“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.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A junkie is someone who uses their
“A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.”
— Stella Adler
Author: Stella Adler
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Once the fabric of a just society
“Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.”
— Deepak Chopra
Author: Deepak Chopra
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A society made up of individuals who
“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
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All women have a perception much more
“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”
— Paulo Coelho
Author: Paulo Coelho
Category: society
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