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Good Society quotes: Best famous quotes about Society
Good Society quotes: Best famous quotes about Society
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. - Charles Kuralt
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. - Timothy Leary
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. - Mignon McLaughlin
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. - Peter Medawar
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. - George Orwell
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. - Carl Sandburg
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. - George Bernard Shaw
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? - Paul Sweeney
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. - Thomas Szasz
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. - Thomas Szasz
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition. - Alvin Toffler
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
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. - Arnold J. Toynbee
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. - Bill Vaughan
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughn
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster
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October 1st, 2008 at 10:08 am
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in” -greek proverbs