“The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.”
Oscar Wilde
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Benjamin Franklin
“As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.”
Jean Cocteau
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The fall of man is caused by the seductiveness of Inspiration, Pleasure, Natural Beauty, Material Instinct and their refusal too cooperate with their counterparts, Imagination, Inelligence, Passion, and Instinct.”
Leif Ericsson Leo Veness
“Their first instinct should be to answer questions about our security rather than launch a public relations offensive, and when that fails do what they should've done from day one,”
David Wade
