"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
-Edward Abbey
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"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
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
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"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
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"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."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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