“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”
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“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.”
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.”
“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
“What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”
“In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.”
“I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.”
“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.”
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
“Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.”
“Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.”
“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.”
“Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.”
“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”
“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.”
“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”
“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.”
“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
“He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.”
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”
“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”