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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My…
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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
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Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.
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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
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People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
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Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.
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Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the…
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Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and…
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America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
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Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist...
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It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the…
— Ernest Gellner
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A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a…
— Pauline Hanson
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Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would…
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
— Maria Montessori
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements,…
— William Wordsworth
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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Attempted suicide: Attention seeker. Successful suicide: Beautiful and lover. Yeah, good one society.
— Cuts And Scars
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It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral…
— Honore De Balzac
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