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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There is more to life than increasing its speed.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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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 on our blankets for a nap.

-Barbara Jordan

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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

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

-Henry David Thoreau

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

-Milton Friedman

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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

-Henry David Thoreau

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

-Robert Frost

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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

-James A. Baldwin

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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

-Lily Tomlin

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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

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

-Adam Smith

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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

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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

-John W. Gardner

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We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

-Hillary Clinton

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

-George Orwell

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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

-Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

-Orson Welles

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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

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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

-Robert Orben

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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

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

-C. Wright Mills

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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

-A. Whitney Brown

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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

-James Madison

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

-Timothy Leary

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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 J. Toynbee

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