A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale;
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It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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It is not a fragrant world.
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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
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A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
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The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
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A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive
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Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
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I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
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I greet you as the shapers of American society.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.
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