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Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself.-- Potter Stewart
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
This is one of those episodes which makes you want to call up the screenwriter and ask to see their slash. `Cause you know they write it.-- Rhipodon Society
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer. That you are here--that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"-- Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society)
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed a cat. (Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London)
"You ever hear of the Spartans, Lewis? Ancient Greece...traditional enemies of the Athenians? They were a warrior society. I'll try to make it simple for you...they were Klingon." (The Rhipodon Society)
"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves."-- J. B. Priestley
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."-- Robert Frost
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.-- Cyril Parkinson
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."-- John Adams
"It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."-- Miss Manners (Judith Martin)
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.-- George Bernard Shaw
"The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."-- R. A. Pinker
Most of society's arguments are kept alive by a failure to acknowledge nuance. We tend to generate false dichotomies, then try to argue one point using two entirely different sets of assumptions, like two tennis players trying to win a match by hitting beautifully executed shots from either end of separate tennis courts.-- Tim Minchin