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• The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

  Daniel Webster

  Reality, World, Appearance

  Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857). “The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster”, p.146, Little, Brown

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• All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.

  Kate Sheppard

  Inspirational, Sex, Race

  "Women, Politics, And Power : A Global Perspective" by Melanie M. Hughes, (p. 47), 2007.

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• Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Animal, Agreement, Law

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.

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• We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Military, Power

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• Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

  Wendy Kopp

  Education, Country, Powerful

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• Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Mean

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• I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.

  Graham Hancock

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

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• No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Acceptance, Rights

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• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving Up, Hero, People

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• We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.

  Patrick Dodson

  Inspirational, Change, Future

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• You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

  Art Buchwald

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The New York Times Book Review Interview in 1985. Quoted in "Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns‎" by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308, 1990.

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• When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Law

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• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  Class, People, Democracy

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• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Children

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  Robert Frost

  Crazy, Mad, Liberty

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• But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Carpe Diem, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, May, Manners

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Quality, Improvement, Purity

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Anger, Dark

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• A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Small Numbers, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.53

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• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Good Morning, Optimistic, Eye

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• The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom Of Speech, Principles, Flow

  The New York Times, January 19, 1962.

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• A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

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