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Society Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- 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…
- The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have…
- Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life…
- The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
- A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
- A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood,…
- The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our…
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- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
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- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi