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| A. E. Housman | In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun [read rest of quote] |
| A. F. Shaw | I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American. |
| A. J. Ayer | No moral system can rest solely on authority. |
| A. J. Liebling | People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. |
| A. N. Whitehead | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. |
| A.A. Milne | No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. |
| A.J. Liebling | Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. |
| Abba Eban | History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternative [read rest of quote] |
| Abba Eban | Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. |
| Abbie Hoffman | Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. [read rest of quote] |
| Abdul Baha | If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish h [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personall [read rest of quote] |
| Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. | My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. |
| Albert Einstein | If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will cla [read rest of quote] |
| Alexander Hamilton | The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed he [read rest of quote] |
| Anne Frank | How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. |
| Anonymous | The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon t [read rest of quote] |
| B. F. Skinner | Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the produ [read rest of quote] |
| Brendan Behan | If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. |
| Don Herold | There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and [read rest of quote] |
| Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931 | The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sa [read rest of quote] |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same t [read rest of quote] |
| G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown | The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were t [read rest of quote] |
| Gregory Bateson | In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next gen [read rest of quote] |
| Groucho Marx | Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. |
| Guindon cartoon caption | Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. |
| Harry S Truman | Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society sta [read rest of quote] |
| Henrik Tikkanen | Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. |
| Henry Adams | There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. |
| Irv Kupcinet | What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? |
| Irv Kupcinet | What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? |
| J.B. Priestley | Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. |
| Jeff Marder | We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. |
| Jeremy Rifkin | The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed [read rest of quote] |
| John F Kennedy | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. |
| John W. Gardner | The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi [read rest of quote] |
| Joseph Weizenbaum | Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily p [read rest of quote] |
| Judie Brown | We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient dru [read rest of quote] |
| Judith Martin, (Miss Manners) | We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participa [read rest of quote] |
| Kahil Gibran | They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except [read rest of quote] |
| Kahlil Gibran | It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body. |
| Kahlil Gibran | The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. |
| Karen Horney | Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a ve [read rest of quote] |
| Karen Horney | Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. |
| Krishnamurti | It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. |
| L. M. Boyd | There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. |
| L. M. K. Boelter | Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form benef [read rest of quote] |
| La Fontaine | Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances. |
| Leo Szilard | You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence. |
| Lorne Bloch | The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government ma [read rest of quote] |
| Louis D. Brandeis | America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted [read rest of quote] |
| M. F. K. Fisher | Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. |
| Margaret Fuller | Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual [read rest of quote] |
| Mark Twain | Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. |
| Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude" | The police.....always wanting to play games. |
| Nancy Astor | The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman. |
| Nancy Reagan | I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. |
| Napoleon | Men, in general, are but great children. |
| Napoleon | Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. |
| Napoleon | A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. |
| Ogden Nash | Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. |
| Pat Robertson | It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husband [read rest of quote] |
| Patrick Henry | I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. |
| Paul Claudel | Intelligence is nothing without delight. |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope | That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for [read rest of quote] |
| Quentin Crisp | The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa [read rest of quote] |
| Quentin Crisp | Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost? |
| Quentin Crisp | The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is [read rest of quote] |
| Quentin Crisp | Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. |
| S. I. Hayakawa | If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a [read rest of quote] |
| Samuel Johnson | Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangin [read rest of quote] |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of [read rest of quote] |
| Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791) | The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place [read rest of quote] |
| Time Bandits | Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence |
| U Thant | Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect o [read rest of quote] |
| Ulysses S. Grant | I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict [read rest of quote] |
| Umberto Eco | I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by [read rest of quote] |
| Unknown | DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening. |
| Valdemar W. Setzer | Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our [read rest of quote] |
| Victor Hugo | The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed [read rest of quote] |
| William F. Buckley Jr. | I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence. |
| William Ralph Inge | A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. |
| Zaki Yamani | The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack o [read rest of quote] |