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Society Quotes
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In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.
There is only one institution in the society capable of acting to abolish poverty. That is the Federal Government.
Society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single flat surface.
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
In civilized communities mens idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behaviour. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Truth Quote
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Love Quote
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
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