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"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."

H. L. Mencken on Society

More quotes about Society

  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by H. L. Mencken

  • "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

  • "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

  • "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."

  • "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

  • "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."

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