“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”
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“Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.”
“Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.”
“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.”
“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.”
“Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.”
“What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
“We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.”
“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”
“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
“Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.”
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”
“I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.”
“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”
“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.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”
“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.”
“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”