Society

"In this country “American” means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."              - Toni Morrison ...
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Old Greek proverb ...
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"It is likely that I will die in my bed. My successor will die in prison. His successor will die executed in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild ...
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"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."                  - Chief Seattle ...
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“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” - Ivan Illich ...
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"In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops." - Paul Brooks ...
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"Privilege, almost by definition, requires that someone pay the price for its enjoyment." - Paula Ross ...
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"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained." - John Stuart Mill ...
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"Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity — as long as you don’t point out that people are different." - Colin Quinn ...
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"Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." - C.S. Lewis ...
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