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“Aos políticos: «menos liberalismo e mais carácter»; aos homens de letras: «menos eloquência e mais ideia»; aos cidadãos em geral: «menos progresso e mais moral».”

Book:Os Maias

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Os Maias

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“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin.”

Society Revolution

Book:The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“. . . then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we paused to think — 'What to do tomorrow?' and the answer was always, 'As we please . . .”

Life Society Capitalism

Book:Evasion

Source: Evasion

“Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.”

Society Distribution Circulation Psycho Mental Disorder Psychopaths

Book:Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.”

Society Abuse Ya Dystopian

Book:The Book of Ivy

Source: The Book of Ivy

“In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.”

Society

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“That old unionism was, however, very different from the kind we live with now. We do not live with an ideal, sometimes on the defensive, of union. We live with the overriding, overwhelming fact, a fact so technologically, economically, and politically validated that we usually forget to ask how fully this fact represents a true community, the spiritually significant communion which the old romantic unionism had envisaged.”

America Politics Society Union

Book:The Legacy of the Civil War

Source: The Legacy of the Civil War

“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony. (Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)”

History Society Rebellion Paradox Ritual Kafka Parable

Book:Parables and Paradoxes

Source: Parables and Paradoxes

“It seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and brushed.”

Law Society Style Hair Rules Hairstyle

Book:The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“It’s great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.”

Community Society Socialism Reliance Democratic Socialism Reliance On Others

Book:Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Source: Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making. It is to be proud of a victory won by our comrades. It is to feel, as we place our stone, that we are contributing to the building of the world.”

Community Responsibility Society

Book:Wind, Sand and Stars

Source: Wind, Sand and Stars

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