Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Society

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Barbara Jordan on Society

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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.

- Barbara Jordan

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Thomas Szasz on Society

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

- Thomas Szasz

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Timothy Leary on Society

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

- Timothy Leary

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Peter Medawar on Society

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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.

- Peter Medawar

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Omar N. Bradley on Society

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

- Omar N. Bradley

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George Bernard Shaw on Society

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Paul Sweeney on Society

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

- Paul Sweeney

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Jacques Barzun on Society

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

- Jacques Barzun

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Charles Kuralt on Society

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

- Charles Kuralt

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