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Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society. (Robespierre Maximilien)
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods. (Robespierre Maximilien)
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? (Robespierre Maximilien)
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. (Robespierre Maximilien)
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars! (Robespierre Maximilien)
To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. (Robespierre Maximilien)
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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