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A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
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Source Unknown
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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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Oscar Wilde
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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Valerie Solanis
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
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Ronald Wright
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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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Simone De Beauvoir
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Oscar Wilde
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Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
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Publilius Syrus
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Society is a hospital of incurables.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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George Santayana
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Lord Byron
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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Lord Acton
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
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John Adams
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.
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Henrik Ibsen
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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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Margaret Thatcher
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Robert Frost
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What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Irv Kupcinet
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Friedrich Schlegel
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Dean William R. Inge
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You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
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Frank DeFord
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You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.
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Tahanie
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