Foundation Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such…

— Brian Boyd

People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and…

— David Graeber

“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught to be…

— Nicholas Wade

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

— Leon Kass

“Mutual tolerance between two or more females is the first step towards sociality.”

— Paul Michener

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be…

— Henry David Thoreau

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves,…

— Henry David Thoreau

In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system…

— Ida B. Wells

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent…

— Simon Greenleaf

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer…

— Thomas Hodgskin

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

— Charles Lamb