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Society Quotes
"I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is."
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Madonna
"The fate of nations depends on how they choose to birth and care for their children"
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Michel Odent
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues"
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Bertrand Russell
"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law"
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization"
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Samuel Johnson
"People are bloody ignorant apes."
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Samuel Beckett
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"
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Aldous Huxley
"The human race is getting simpler by the minute, there are fewer and fewer questions"
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Jose Saramago
"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone"
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Jose Saramago
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"
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Henry David Thoreau
"Human beings are the only animals who have to work"
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Jose Saramago
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens"
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Plato
"Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness"
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Thomas Paine
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe"
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
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Marilyn vos Savant
"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it."
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John Stuart Mill
"All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people."
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John Stuart Mill
"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
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John Stuart Mill
"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws"
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Hunter S. Thompson
"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile"
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Hunter S. Thompson
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