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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Equality, Politics

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

  Judith Martin

  Positive, Belief, Fit

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• To be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Injustice

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Mean

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.

  Lucretius

  Lying, Blood, Mind

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• We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

  Patch Adams

  Inspiring, Giving, Community

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• Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

  Scott Adams

  Reality, People, Insane

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• Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Meditation, Vision

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Trying, Republic, Individual

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• We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.

  Dee Hock

  Nature, Struggle, Years

  "The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock". Interview with M. Mitchell Waldrop, www.fastcompany.com. October 31, 1996.

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• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.

  Ella Baker

  Meaningful, Self, Order

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• Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

  John W. Gardner

  Relationship, People, Kind

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Peace, Patriotic, Ignorance

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Law, Cities

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• Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Class, Two, Shearer

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• Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Foolish, Young, Persons

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• Society is a hospital of incurables.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hospitals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.410, Modern Library

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• We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

  Lin Yutang

  People, Impossible, Should

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

  Robert Burns

  Morality, Bane

  Robert Burns (1859). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence”, p.124

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• Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Fire, Skills

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.56, Penguin

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• most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

  Ernst Mayr

  Logic, Study, Problem

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Inward, Way, Ends

  Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Men, Solitude, Curse

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.96

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• In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Power, History

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