Society Quotes - Page 34

• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Dowry, Married

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Cities

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

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• There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Years, Long, Brutality

  International Herald Tribune, October 31, 1990.

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• Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Moving, Men, Two

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

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• A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Individual, Decrepit

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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• Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

  James Fallows

  Fate, People, Influence

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• Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.

  James Fallows

  Successful, Self, Progress

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• So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Character, Tangible

  "Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870".

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• In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

  Kin Hubbard

  Style, Late, Spite

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• What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.

  Michael Dolan

  Control Of Your Life, Break, Chains

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• It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

  Groucho Marx

  Hard Times, Prosperity, Hard

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• I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Believe, Eye, World

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• If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

  Oliver Herford

  Rights, People, Complaining

  Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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• People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Years, People, World

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

  Mark Van Doren

  Confusion, World, Way

  Mark Van Doren (1961). “The Happy Critic and Other Essays”

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• Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

  Andrew Young

  Secrecy, Diplomacy, Copiers

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• In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

  Jack Horner

  Lifetime, Persons, Where We Came

  1993 On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26 Apr.

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• The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

  Tacitus

  Family, Hatred, Violent

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 70,

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Men, Police

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Politics, Politician, Unfair

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.161, Random House

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• I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Class, Hatred, May

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, People, Profound

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Father, Taken

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• Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

  Paul Valery

  Rights, Moments, Social

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