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“he doesn't play the game ... He refuses to lie. Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more t...”
“Sitting there, watching the shades of evening settle slowly on the drab little town, it seemed to me that nothing but blind blundering vengeance, howsoever camouflaged, awaits all those who dare to...”
“A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them?”
“Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?”
“In this so called high-society there is value of a dress but not of a person.So give me less food but give me on a big table.”
“The battle over societyits direction, its temper, its organization, its characteris often played out on the square. But the battle rarely ends; it does not easily resolve [David Remnick, "Geopoliti...”
“What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.”
“Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that.”
“If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers on. Otherwise if...”
“In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.”
“In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost.”
“Lily was listening; Mrs. Ramsay was listening; they were all listening. But already bored, Lily felt that something was lacking; Mr. Bankes felt that something was lacking. Pulling her shawl round ...”
“A woman, she had provoked this horror; a woman, she shouldh ave known how to deal with it. It was immesley to her discredit, sexually, to stand there dumb. One said - what did one say? - Oh, Mr. Ra...”
“No, monsieur, returned Monte Cristo upon the simple condition that they should respect myself and my friends. Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt h...”
“But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies...and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost o...”
“Yet our world of abundance, with seas of wine and alps of bread, has hardly turned out to be the ebullient place dreamt of by our ancestors in the famine-stricken years of the Middle Ages. The brig...”
“We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war.”
“Trust cannot, in the real world, be just a matter of personal choice.”
“Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.”
“One day we shall domesticate him into a human being & then I shall be able to sketch him. For this is what we have done with ourselves & with God. The little boy will assist his own domestication; ...”
