“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
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John Stuart Mill
4 quotes“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.”
Lily Tomlin
3 quotes“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
D.H. Lawrence
3 quotes“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
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.”
Karl Marx
2 quotes“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these indivi...”
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.”
George Orwell
2 quotes“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossi...”
Einstein
1 quote“The state was made for man, not man for state.”
Alice Walker
1 quote“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”
Anne Rice
1 quote“I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.”