Association quotes
193 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain."
"Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations."
"Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs."
"All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution."
"The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled."
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"Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation."
"Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all."
"All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew"
"If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches."
"Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network."
"Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality."
"I’m actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation."
"Associations are both subtle and powerful."
"There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association."
"I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money."
"The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses."
"Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health."
"Association with human beings lures one into self-observation."
"The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe."
"Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self."
"So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions."
"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."
"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."
"Like associates with like."
