Quotes of: Free-society Keyword

...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.

Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Sketches and Travels, Etc.

Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them.

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Man On Fire

By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

The Magicians

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

The Mysterious Benedict Society

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Murder Suicide

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

New World: Rising

The home is the most ritualized place in a society; each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

Lullabies for Little Criminals

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

Les Misérables

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Madame Bovary

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Self-Reliance

Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society.

A Spacious Life: Memoir of a Meditator

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

Sylvester

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

The Persian Letters

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

The Psychology of Socialism

Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.

On Power