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- So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
- They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
- Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
- A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Fountainhead (1943)
- Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
- John Lahr
- Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. - Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society)
- The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years
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