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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Religion, Men, Science

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills

Life, History, Both

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
A. Whitney Brown

Frustrated, Forest, Petrified

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

Government, Person, Democracy

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary

Less, Top, Unbearable

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Today, Human, Become

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Words, Free, Open

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere

Fear, Wise, Person

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt

Country, Find, Stars

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

Real, Tell, Ability

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Boyd Rice

Freedom, Rights, Suffers

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Time, Thought, Dark

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza

Power, Care, Give

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley

Art, Cannot, Social

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Martha Beck

Dating, Social, Situation

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan

After, Trees, Names

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan

Work, After, Problem

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster

Seem, Necessary, Appearance

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

Patience, Young, Cake

It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen

Night, Stay, Eat

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Change, Human, Able

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker

Done, Progress, Terrible

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet

God, Dead, Alive

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar

Today, Young, Youth

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