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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.
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The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.
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The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection real or imagined by them.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.- James Russell Lowell
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The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
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The first bond of society is marriage. Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Jawaharlal Nehru quotes
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
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The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
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The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ”Keep tomorrow dark,” and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ”Cheat the Prophet.” The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.
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The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.
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The ideal of selfadvancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.
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The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
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The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The allimportant question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.
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