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Emma Goldman
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Lily Tomlin
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Eugene Ionesco
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
John Lennon
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Adam Smith
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Charles Kuralt
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Carl Sandburg
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Alex Grey
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Brendan Behan
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
John W. Gardner
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
Bill Vaughan
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Emily Bronte
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Robert A. Heinlein
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
P. J. O'Rourke
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and ...
Edwin Powell Hubble
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
William S. Burroughs
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
George Bernard Shaw
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Henrik Ibsen
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Howard Nemerov
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Elon Musk
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.