"Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead."

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Source : Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1505, Open Road Media

Henry Adams

#Laughing Quotes #Society Quotes #Vices Quotes

“I am an interpreter of interpretations”

Source : "Propaganda trumps journalism in conservative media climate reporting" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2015.
“When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.”
“Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.”
“I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.”
“At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places.”

Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg
“Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the real priorities of the population are. Lobbies, including military contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population's real needs.”

Source : "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.
“Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?”

Source : Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.119, Faber & Faber
“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

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