#society

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— H. L. Mencken

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What's done to children, they will do to society. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

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And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time. ↗

— David Miliband

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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