Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

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Society is a mule, not a car; if pressed harder, it will kick and throw you off.
-- Issawi's Law of the Pace of Progre...
Society is founded on hero worship.
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
He, however, who would study nature in i...
Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.
-- Edward Abbey...
Society is now one polish'd horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 95...
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws.
-- Solo...
Society like air, is necessary, but not complete for life.
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
-- Arthur Stringer - The Silver Poppy...
Society out of order. Sorting.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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