Collection of Old Society Quotes

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A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.

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A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

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A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.- Anonymous

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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai E. Stevenson quotes

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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.This minding of other people’s business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor’s shoulder or fly at his throat.

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A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.

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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

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A man’s reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

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A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

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A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.- Nelson Mandela

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A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one– And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

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

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A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.

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A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

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A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour’s wife.- Thomas Babington

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A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

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A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium. Margaret Thatcher quotes

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Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society. Anonymous quotes

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According to man’s environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.


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