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“For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.”

Mind Looks Able Lying Blood Society All Things Stones Look Up Temples Altars Piety

Author:Lucretius

“No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”

Knows Men States Able Social Knowing Society Human Nature

Book:Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places

Source: Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places

“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

“I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.”

Ifs Able Wonder Society

Author:Demetri Martin

“Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the society. The more foolish you are, the more the society is able to create a conscience in you. It gives you an idea how to live your life. It manipulates you in a very subtle way. It hypnotizes you and conditions you. And the conditioning is so long that you forget completely that these are not your ideas.”

Way Giving Long Ideas Character Able Remember Values Forget Consciousness Society Conditions Conscience Valuable Foolish Subtle Live Your Life Manipulate Conditioning

Author:Rajneesh

“What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.”

Ifs Would Be Able Individual Liberty Society Offers Free Society Individual Liberty

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.”

Years Has Beens War Able Political Liberty Millions Week Society Weak Terrorist Command Ideological Civil Liberties Entirety Already Won Magna Carta

Author:Rocco Galati

“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.”

Knows Humans Able Social Can Do Society Identity Behavior Normal Anger Injustice Spite Human Society Social Behavior

Book:Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

“Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.”

“Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.”

People Able Action Situation Fantasy Society Discipline Theater Ritual Concrete Sociology Symbolic Anthropology

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.”

Enough Able School Society Achieve Communicate Backgrounds Command Prosperous Background Knowledge

Author:Edward Hirsch