“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
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Barbara Tuchman
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Lily Tomlin
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D.H. Lawrence
3 quotes“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
Martin Luther King
3 quotes“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment...”
George Orwell
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Adam Smith
2 quotes“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
Lord Byron
2 quotes“Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.”
Margaret Mitchell
2 quotes“There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.”
William Thackeray
1 quote“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.”
Orson Welles
1 quote“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”
Gertrude Stein
1 quote“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”