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“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Truth Life Is Change Society Anger Aging Dues Favors Changes In Society Systems Change

Author:Robert Frost

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.”

Thinking Whole Religion Trouble Society Atheist Oneself Heretic Heist Society

Author:Aubrey Menen

“A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.”

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Author:Steve Winwood

“Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.”

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Author:Aristotle

“I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.”

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Author:Chester Barnard

“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!”

“So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?”

Ifs Thinking World Real Born Seeing Society Normal Normality Futurist Dictating

Author:Jacque Fresco

“I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”

“I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.”

People Thinking Suffering Too Much Rights Society Anger Irresponsible This Society

Author:Boyd Rice

“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”

Thinking Education Risk Society Information Ignorance Becoming Died Apathy Downfall Access To Information Becoming The Best

Author:Ruben Blades

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”

Thinking Men Long Has Beens Names Society Crime Acceptance Hero Committed Obedience Rebellion Heroic Discernment Hideous Gloomy

Book:The Physicists

Source: The Physicists

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.”

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.”

“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.”

People Thinking School Time Change Education Society Students Debt Acquire Traps Unlikely Loan Time To Think Tuition Affording Access To Education

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”

Thinking World Problem Leadership Inspiring Levels Education Society This World Witty Problem Solving Can Not Solved Problems Funny And Witty Funny Witty Funny Clever Clever And Witty

Author:Albert Einstein

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”

“Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European community does not have widespread hunger. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.”

People Thinking World Way Children Doe Ends America Community Society Childhood Blessed Hunger Borders Abundance World Hunger Ending Hunger Hunger For Food Food Banks Hunger In America

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.”

“I think it would be a good idea.”

Thinking Ideas Would Be Powerful Society Humorous Witty Good Ideas

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act possible. To be a sannyasin means to live without the mind, and the moment you live without mind you live without society. The mind has created society, and society has created the mind; they are interdependent. To be a sannyasin means to renounce all that is false but not to renounce the world, to renounce all that is unauthentic, to renounce all the answers, to be responsive, spontaneously responsive, and not to think about the reasons, but to be real.”

Thinking Men World Mind Mean Real Reason Moments Answers Break Society Institutions Courageous Being Real Renounce Break Out

Author:Rajneesh

“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.”

“We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”

Thinking Politics Individual Society Anger This Society Individuals And Society

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.”

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”

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Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.”

Thinking Ideas Society Carpe Diem Carpe Think For Yourself Dead Poets Society Dead Poets

Author:Robin Williams

“Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction.”

Thinking Long Dies Next Fear Silence Society Bills Handle Distraction Exes Deadline Your Ex

Author:Alanis Morissette

“During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.”

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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.”

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Author:Graham Hancock

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.”

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Author:Whitfield Diffie

“If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.”

Ifs Thinking Class Society Middle Members Stealing Middle Class Paranoid

Author:Robert Breault

“I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.”

Thinking Sex Society Instinct Deeper Repression

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.”

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Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.”

Thinking World Past Fall Hours Society Mankind Tears Promise Truth Is Eternal Mirrors Instinct Endless Dread Falling Apart Rotten Ripe Do Not Fear Promise Of The Future

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.”

Thinking Important Politics Society Politician Radical

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest