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Thursday, 15 May 2008
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"A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Tools)

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A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations.
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.


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