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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Historical, Democracy

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• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

  Neil Armstrong

  Mean, Research, Knows

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• No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Communication, Misunderstood, Dialogue

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• Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Positive, Teamwork, Responsibility

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• A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

  Stanislav Grof

  Real, Community, Might

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• A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Trouble Maker, Troublemaker

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.23, Penguin

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

  Eric Hoffer

  Clever, Fear, Halloween

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Goal, Mind

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• Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Affluence, Pollution, Affluent

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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• Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pregnancy, Church, Civilized Nations

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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Important, Branches

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nwo, People, Political

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Umpires, Roots

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Jail, Common Sense

  "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

  Jack Kingston

  Love, Children, Husband

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• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  Ed Koch

  Cleaning, Neighborhood, Festering

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Freedom, Humorous

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Law, Minorities

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Class, Matter

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

  John Lennon

  Hippie, Artist, Reflection

  John Lennon, Wulf Herzogenrath, Dorothée Hansen (1995). “John Lennon: drawings, performances, films”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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