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Society Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out…
- A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not…
- In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
- In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find…
- Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
- Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
- An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
- A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
- An armed society is a polite society.
- If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for…
- Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then —…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- 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