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“Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.”

Kind Ends Seems Together Society Opposites All Kinds Moderates Crowded Fanatics

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.”

Men Christian Together Evil Society Accounts Sticks Melancholy Solitary Fellowship Doing Good Kindles Bundles Provocation Solitary Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

“Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

“It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.”

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Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.”

“Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.”

Needs Earth Together Society Foundation Myth Legends Void Coercion

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.”

“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”

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

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

“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.”

“Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).”

Source: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

“Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.”

Men Together Form Law Society Connections Reconcile

Book:Essays:

Source: Essays:

“The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.”

Men Together Law Cities Society Noble Preservation

Book:Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra

Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra

“Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.”

“We must keep together, we belong to each other.”

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Book:Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.”