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Society Quotes

"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."

"It is man's ability to make tools that makes other animals his prey and that has enabled him to develop cooperating societies and to conquer his environment"

"To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet"

"The world, as seen today, is murky and subterranean."

"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself."

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world"

"He who builds on the people builds on mud"

"In Beverly Hills they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

"The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane "

"Now government is necessary for our mutual survival deception and lies our devastating hope"

"The world you are inheriting is a world which desperately needs a sense of security and hope."

"A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing."

"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit."

"Art is the great democrat calling forth creative genius from every sector of society disregarding race or religion or wealth or color"

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law"

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