Mignon McLaughlin - Society honors its living conformists...

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Biography

Author Profession: Journalist

Nationality: American

Born: June 6, 1913

Died: December 20, 1983

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Hunter S. Thompson, Erma Bombeck, Ambrose Bierce, Ann Landers, Dave Barry, Heywood Broun, Dan Rather, Finley Peter Dunne

Topics

Dead, Honors, Living, Society, Troublemakers

Quotes to Explore

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.

Christina Grimmie

Funny Yourself You Stupid

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

Good You World Society

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Leadership Change History Men

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education Family Knowledge Progress

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom Women Men Society

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Justice Society Ignorance Feel

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Anthony Bourdain

Best Me Food Together

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Nature Love Sea Music

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.

Faith You Ocean Society

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

Peace Discrimination Society Building

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

Women Men Justice Society

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Life Alone Water Man

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Work Society Team Effort

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Racism Society Ignorance Things

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