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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. You are very fond, sir, of talking about the consideration we owe to the community; it seems to me, however, that the community has its duties too. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
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Born:
March 20, 1828
Died:
May 23, 1906
(aged 78)
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