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A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
Society
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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Society
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
Society
Oscar Wilde

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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Society
Rabindranath Tagore

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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Society
Valerie Solanis

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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Society
Henry David Thoreau

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Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Society
Ronald Wright

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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Society
B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Society
Simone De Beauvoir

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Oscar Wilde

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Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
Society
Publilius Syrus

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Society is a hospital of incurables.
Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
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George Santayana

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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Society
Lord Byron

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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Henri Frederic Amiel

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Society
Lord Acton

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The happiness of society is the end of government.
Society
John Adams

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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.
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Henrik Ibsen

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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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Margaret Thatcher

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To be social is to be forgiving.
Society
Robert Frost

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What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Society
Irv Kupcinet

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