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“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”
John Lennon
“Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people”
Oscar Wilde
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa
“I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
Billy Wilder
“Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance”
George Bernard Shaw
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
“Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.”
Nicholas Meyer
