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«In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher | About: Society | Keywords: The Ultimate Sin
«It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.»
«In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary»
«In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.»
«I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.»
«In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.»
«Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.»
«In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible»
«It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Ideas, Society | Keywords: does not exist, upright
«In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) | About: Literature, Society | Keywords: infancy

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