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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

– Greek ProverbRate it:

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

– Alan SimpsonRate it:

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

– Bertrand de JouvenalRate it:

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

– Mary McCarthyRate it:

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

– Friedrich August von HayekRate it:

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

– Lewis LaphamRate it:

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

– Milton FriedmanRate it:

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

– George WillRate it:

A society where emotions come last and selfishness is considered blessed, or placed first before anything; cannot be expected to produce good fruits!

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

– Jean BaudrillardRate it:

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.

– Zaman AliRate it:

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

– Book of ProverbsRate it:

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.

– Howard Tayler, Rule 12: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Schlock MercenaryRate it:

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

– Book of ProverbsRate it:

A soldier told me if you hop up and down on 1 leg it makes you grow taller!

– Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of RussiaRate it:

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

– Thomas MannRate it:

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

– Walter Savage LandorRate it:

A song that is the sole voice of the soul merely soothes the stress of the heart, else it only causes strain to the brain

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

– Wyndham LewisRate it:

A soul can love only another soul. It cannot be turned inward and then expect to love itself.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

A soul is a water changing its freshness and depth according to the soul that drinks it.

– Mariana FulgerRate it:

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

– Eileen CaddyRate it:

A soulful person builds temple in his heart,so that he does not have to go out in search of God in any part of the world.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

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