"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
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"Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it."
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"The art of governing mankind by deceiving them."
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"Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?"
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"If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves."
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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."
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"But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society."
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
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"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."
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"One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits."
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"Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack."
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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
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"As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top."
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"So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present."
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"In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable."
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"We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life."
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"High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do."
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"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts."
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"There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society."
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"We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology."
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