"No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect."
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"Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation."
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"Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new."
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"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
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"No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated."
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"Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together."
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"There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself."
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"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
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"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."
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"To be social is to be forgiving."
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"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society"
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"Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that."
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"Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle."
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"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
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"It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going."
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"The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next."
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"The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts."
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"Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows"
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"Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being."
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"America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact."
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