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Eugene Ionesco | Society Quotes
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.
Nicolas Chamfort
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Oscar Wilde
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust
In Humanity's machine.




Giuseppe Mazzini
One sole God;
One sole ruler,—his Law;
One sole interpreter of that law—Humanity.
Bertolt Brecht
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.
Joseph Stalin
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Bertolt Brecht
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
George Orwell
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
Emil Cioran | Society Quotes
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.




Henry S. Haskins
The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.
Richard Roth
Architecture reflects society, and this is not a great age.
Plato
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
Irving Kristol
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
Nelson Mandela | Society Quotes
The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.
Bob Rae
Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.
William Hazlitt
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Theodor Adorno
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
Pierre Trudeau
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.


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