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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Irv Kupcinet
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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Krishnamurti
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
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Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
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Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
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Robertson Davies
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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
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Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
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