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Man as a thief cannot enjoy life he can only steal, kill and destroy harmony of society.

—Kishore Bansal

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…because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, is that it is a totally decentralised process…no cell need wait for instructions from authority; every cell can...

—Matt Ridley

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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

—M.F.K. Fisher

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Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also...

—Nick Harkaway

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The plain below was just visible; infinitely vague and distant. Peering down between the boulders Irma could see the glint of water and tiny figures coming and going through drifts of rosy smoke, or mist....

—Joan Lindsay

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Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong...

—Katherine Dunn

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Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.

—Kaimana Wolff

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… rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,…

—Marcel Proust

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(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): ‘I think it would be a good idea.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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I discovered at an early age that I was – shall we be kina and say different? It’s a better, more general word than the other one… I got sick… It was the feeling that...

—Ken Kesey

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Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body…

—Kiley MacLeod

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You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It...

—Mehmet Murat

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I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am...

—Osamu Dazai

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One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor — but in the software world this is piracy. To prevent this, the U.S. is putting in place practices which are like those in the...

—Richard Stallman

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The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure...

—Kenneth Rexroth

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The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions and things taken for granted again into...

—Michel Foucault

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What do woman say to little boys? ” Stop fighting. Stop being so rough. Stop rough housing.” They’re boys you know, that’s kinda what they’re sapossed to do. So, men are sapossed to overcome all...

—Stefan Molyneux

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It’s funny how our desires often tend to circle around the whims and fancies of others rather than the self. One school of thought has a convincing explanation that this is because we live in...

—Priyanka Naik

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A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is thrust...

—William Barrett

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Everyone goes about trying to see what he can get from society.

—Sathya Baba

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Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

—Ziad K.

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Political leaders are reflection of our society.

—Sukant Ratnakar

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Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

—Toni Morrison

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But here’s the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn’t proposing that as a concept; he’s simply articulating what humans believe about themselves. That first they thing and therefore then they exist.What follows on...

—Sabina Berman

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The continued appeal of anarchism can probably be attributed to its enduring affinity with both the rational and emotional impulses lying deep within us. It is an attitude, a way of life as well as...

—Peter Marshall

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Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We’ll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there’ll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one...

—Shirley Jackson

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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

—Susan Sontag

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społeczeństwo jest kobietą – musi mieć samca, który je gwałci – otchłanne myśli – nieprawda?

—Stanisław Ignacy

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A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn’t know. Consider,’ he continued, Gotho’s Folly. Gotho’s curse was in being too aware – of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to...

—Steven Erikson

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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

—Aberjhani

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Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

—Anthony Liccione

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He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of...

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost.

—Bryant McGill

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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t...

—B.F. Skinner

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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.

—Alan Bennett

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In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

—Brandon Stanton

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Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have...

—C. JoyBell C.

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Education should aim at destroying free will so thatpupils thus schooled, will be incapable throughoutthe rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwisethan as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . .Influences of the...

—Bertrand Russell

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An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

—C.L.R. James

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Dans les sociétés vernaculaires, l’éducation est homéotélique vis-à-vis de Gaïa

—Edouard Goldsmith

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This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails–eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is...

—Hunter S.

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In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

—Criss Jami

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The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You’re the corpse in an English...

—Chuck Palahniuk

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Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

—Idries Shah

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Sometimes, the truth makes everything else seem like.

—Jawwad Zafar

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…The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this...

—Elder Porphyrios

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We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad...

—Daniel Gilbert

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What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be–not seem–outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined–as a means of being spontaneous. That one resist at whatever cost the fearful pressures...

—James Baldwin

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It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as...

—Duop Chak

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Every society has the criminals it deserves.

—Emma Goldman

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