A Quotes
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“A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!”
“A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!”
“A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.”
“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”
Source: ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
“A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.”
“A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“A society without its dreamers can never be free.”
“A society without morals by default teaches wrong things and behavior. That everyone there graduates to become a world class freak, schmuck and a criminal. They end up becoming a burden and a problem to the system and to everyone.”
“A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.”
“A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity of women is disadvantaged. Without the bearing of women on world affairs, humanity's already tenuous grip on peace is made even less sure. When women are barred, whether by law, cultural prejudice, or political ideology, from developing their full potential and offering their unique gifts, it is an injustice to women themselves and to humanity as a whole.”
Source: Achtung Baby
“A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.”
Source: Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
“A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.”
Source: Fear and Conventionality
“A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”
“A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
“A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.”
“A sociopath can imitate emotions, where a psychopath really doesn't have that capacity. They can't fool people into thinking anything and they're usually lacking major empathy for anybody besides themselves.”
“A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions.”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“A sociopath will do anything to win. Anything.”
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
“A Socrates in every classroom.”
“A sodomia, ou homossexualismo, era um hábito atribuído aos judeus, e nisso se celebrisavam Sodoma e Gomôrra. Os antigos portuguezes, e mesmo nos séculos XVII e XVIII, associavam aos hebreus as mesmas tendências, e a cuja mistura de sangue atribuíam a diminuição do vigor dos luzitanos.”
Source: A Invasão dos Judeus
“A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?”
“A sofa will give you comfort, but a chair will give you style.”
“A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.”
“A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury.”
“A soft answer turns away anger.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set
“A soft barbed tongue cannot clean the bloody crooked claw hands.
After a conversation with Dr.Muhsin Bilal who tried to wash the bloody hands of his party (Baʿath) in general and Bashar al-Assad
in particular.”
“A soft breeze laced with the scent of roses slipped in through the open windows to caress my face.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“A soft breeze settled around our shoulders as we walked into the cemetery. That same breeze made the world around us shiver a little bit. The slick green leaves of the tall trees rustled, and the long curtain of ivy dangling from the branches began to wave. When the ivy blows in the graveyard, it casts the prettiest lacelike shadows on the ground. They remind me of banners, rippling over the dearly departed in silent celebration.”
Source: The Key to Extraordinary
“A soft chitter escaped Tala between kisses, and Faith smiled against her lips. “God, that’s so sexy. Do that again.”
“Make me,” Tala rasped.”
Source: Shifting Nature
“A soft finger touched his shoulder and he turned to see a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark describable beard.”
Source: The 13 Clocks
“A soft growl came from his throat."You´re so beautiful,Doc.Every inch of you is soaking wet.Your pussy´s like a ripe peach,juice running down your leg.”
Source: Raphael/Parish
“a soft lover,
and a wild wanderer”
“A soft luxurious course of habitual indulgence, is the practice of the bulk of modern Christians: and that constant moderation, that wholesome discipline of restraint and self-denial, which are requisite to prevent the unperceived encroachments of the inferior appetites, seem altogether disused, as the exploded austerities of monkish superstition...
But the persons of whom we are now speaking, forgetting alike the duties they owe to themselves and to their fellow-creatures, often act as though their condition were meant to be a state of uniform indulgence, and vacant, unprofitable sloth...
To multiply the comforts of affluence, to provide for the gratification of appetite, to be luxurious without diseases, and indolent without lassitude, seems the chief study of their lives. Others again seem more to attach themselves to what have been well termed the ‘pomps and vanities of this world.’ Magnificent houses, grand equipages, numerous retinues, splendid entertainments, high and fashionable connections, appear to constitute, in their estimation, the supreme happiness of life.”
Source: A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems
“A soft mist blew around them. Raindrops glistened in his hair, shimmering under the pale glow of the light post. His eyes were shadowed beneath wispy fringes, but the silver in them glinted like pools of liquid mercury. Her breath caught. It must have made a sound because his fingers tightened. His shaky exhale whispered across her face.
“This,” he whispered so quietly she almost didn’t hear him. “Is why you are so bad for me.”
Source: Games of Fire
“A soft poke at my shoulder blade startled me.
"Still jumpy, I see."
I spun to see Simon, Derek hanging back behind him.
Simon grinned, the sight as familiar as Derek's scowl. "Got my note, I hear," he said.
I pulled it out and waved it.
He plucked it from my fingers and tucked it into my jacket pocket.”
Source: The Awakening
“A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.”
Source: Emily Dickinson
“A soft, silvery melody pealed in her ears, stopping her where she stood. She shivered, the seductive tones caressing her spine and making her palms tingle. Her blood heated as something kindled at her core. If light had a voice, this would be it.
Starsong.”
Source: Star Daughter
“A soft smile curved up her lips, and my gut dropped a little. A smile…I’d never known a smile could have that kind of effect. Could feel like a kick to the chest.”
Source: The Return
“a soft spirit in a hard world.”
“A soft, tender leaf fell off the branch of a tree.
I picked it up—it looked at me, as if to whisper;
“How did I grow? How did I dance with wind and breeze,
Play with birds, and laugh with fellow leaves?”
How much had it endured—rain, storms, blazing sun,
Noisy roads and shivery winter nights?
What were its favourite tastes, its dearest friends,
The family that cradled it?
None could help it to stay a little longer.
At last, it was time to say goodbye.
I held it with all the care my hands could offer.
It smiled, resting in my palm—
Not an end, but a journey to a new universe,
Eager to taste fresh wonders.
Yet I could not let it go.
I restored it, a tiny, radiant fragment of nature,
A messenger of joy and love.
I gazed once more, and it glimmered quietly,
A universe held in a single leaf.”
“A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.”
“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“A softly-spoken German man points to a window on the third floor of a tall building and says, "My grandfather is sitting in that room."
Planting his feet wide apart, the man begins to wave, his arm sweeping through the air in a huge arc. We all step back to give him enough room.If I let my vision swim out of focus, this seems like an ordinary day with an ordinary man greeting someone he loves across the street.
"I'm not expecting to see him again," he says. But he waves on and on, hoping his grandfather has spotted him.
The Englishmen look away.”
Source: Tying Down the Lion
“A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain”
Source: The Art of UNIX Programming
“A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.”
“A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.”
Source: The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume
“A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.”
“A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.”
Source: Collected Works