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Society Quotes

"Our civilization depends critically on the idea of at least one positive truth"

"Science fiction pretends to look into the future, but it's really looking at a reflection of our current society."

"The well-being of the people is the highest law"

"We inhabit a language rather than a country"

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile"

"Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar"

"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition and society and family"

"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way"

"There are no rights. There are only privileges."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal"

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat"

"The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar"

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

"Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them."

"I want to put on the table not why 85 percent of kids in my country, which is the USA, call themselves religious but why 15 percent don’t. That’s the number that has always shoul fascinate us."

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