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«Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Society
| Keywords:
class, class feeling, conspiracies, conspiracy, degrade, denied, enforced, enforcing, oppress, oppresses, oppressing, organized, organized society, prevails, property, rob
«The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.»
Author: Samuel Hendel
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amalgam, freedoms, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, in short, organized society, restraints
«There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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antisocial, Body of, deprive, desperate, fundamentally, inclination, incurable, methods, opposes, organized society, subtler, ten thousand, usurpation, Wilder
«Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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concerted, disorganized, distracted, for the most part, frustrated, impress, inefficacious, instance, in advance, in the main, monuments, organized society, raise up, sadly, so as to, subsequent, theoretic, The Practice
«The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
organized society, rendered, renders, villain
«POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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disadvantage, edifices, eel, Eels, organized society, reared, superstructure, superstructures, The Statesman, trembling, wriggle, wriggles, wriggling
«An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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democratically, effectively, indirectly, oligarchies, oligarchy, organized society
«Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
dues, membership, organized society, privileges
«Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.»
«Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
guerrilla, Guerrillas, organized crime, organized society
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