"Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface."
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"Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation."
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"Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
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"A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
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"Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness."
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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."
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"None save great men have been the authors of great heresies."
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"What times! What manners!"
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"Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest."
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"It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world."
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"It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings."
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"I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing."
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"I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating."
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"Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements"
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"... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner."
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"Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation."
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"Society's the mother of convention."
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"The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs."
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"I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey."
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"Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs."
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