Quotes with society

Quotes 321 till 340 of 564.

  • Thomas Paine Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Publilius Syrus Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is a hospital of incurables.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo 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.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Camille Paglia Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Society is founded upon cloth.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • James Baldwin Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Abbey Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
    Edward Abbey
    American author and essayist (1927 - 1989)
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  • George Santayana Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Lord George Byron Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Brit Morin Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Solon Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
    Solon
    Greek statesman (638 - 558)
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  • Barbara Park Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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