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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
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George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
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Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude (1870)
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Journey to Freedom (1969)
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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