"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
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"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
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"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."
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"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."
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"When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest."
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"What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous."
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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."
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"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
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"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
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"We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad."
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"They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins."
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"if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?"
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"The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."
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"We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty."
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"In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them."
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"Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel."
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"We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
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"We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society."
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"Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep."
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"Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?"
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