"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."

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"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."

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"Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed."

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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."

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"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

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"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

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"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""

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"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it."

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"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth."

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"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Society, Mankind, Needs, Self, State

"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Society, Intelligence, Knowledge, Fact, Mind

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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