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  1. Jean-Paul Sartre _ Existentialism is a Humanism

    We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.
    book-quotesocietyliberty

  2. Jean-Paul Sartre _ Nausea

    People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
    book-quotesocietyfriendsnaked

  3. Jon Ronson _ The Psychopath Test: A Journey

    Psychopaths {make} the world go around...society {is} an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?
    book-quotesocietypsychopath

  4. Ernesto Sabato _ La resistencia

    Muchas veces me ha sorprendido cómo vemos mejor los paisajes en las películas que en la realidad.
    book-quotesocietyernesto-sabato

  5. Ricardo Piglia _ Blanco nocturno

    The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks.
    book-quotesocietytrustgroups

  6. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.
    book-quotesocietypecking-order

  7. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Writers find it tempting to draw analogies between those trajectories of human societies and the trajectories of individual human lives – to talk of a society's birth, growth, peak, senescence, and death – and to assume that the long period of senescence that most of us traverse between our peak years and our deaths also applies to societies.
    book-quotesociety

  8. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes {of the various societies' histories} towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
    book-quotehistorysocietysuccess

  9. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean - once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own {world}, we won't be able to get help.
    book-quoteescapesocietyhelp

  10. Robert J. Allison _ Before 1776: Life in the

    The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him."
    book-quotesocietyhumilitycuriosity

  11. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    People make the rules of society, not God.
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  12. John Steinbeck _ Cannery Row

    Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.
    book-quotesocietygodnature
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