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societies
«Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.»
Author: Lazarus Long
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Intelligence
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evaluate, evaluated, felony, misdemeanor, misdemeanors, societies
«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.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
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aims, benign, insofar, invariably, meeting place, service station, societies, station
«History is a conflict of two moral types - the predatory and the constructive - and these can be found in all societies, all civilizations»
Author: Syed Hussein Alatas
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History
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conflict of, constructive, predatory, societies, types
«If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
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decent, houses, longed-for, longed, pleasurable, production, self respect, societies
«If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.»
Author: William Greider
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afford, basic, benefits, civilized, confined, defined, exploitation, human existence, implicate, implicated, morally, predicament, societies, tangibly, tolerate, values, wealthier, wealthiest, wealthy
«In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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associations, conspiracies, countries, factions, free association, secret societies, secret society, societies
«All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.»
«A strange, a perverted creed that has a queer attraction both for the most primitive and for the most sophisticated societies.»
«In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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cold, corruption, criticism, example, excluded, excludes, excluding, for example, innocent, innocents, innocent of, institutions, in all, mushroom, mushrooms, Open society, senates, societies, such institutions, wind
«Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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Body of, identical, industrial, industrial societies, industrial society, irresistible, junkie, junkies, junky, longings, mental image, Out of body experience, poignant, pollution, probe, probed, probes, probing, redemption, societies, The Celebration