4,426 Quotes About Society

  • Author Kevin Kelly
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    There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

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  • Author Claude Lévi-Strauss
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    There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

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  • Author D. H. Lawrence
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    America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

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  • Author D. H. Lawrence
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    Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

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  • Author D. H. Lawrence
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    I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

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