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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
If you really wish to become a man of society, you must learn first either to be an imbecile or to hold your tongue.
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.