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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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...the two great foundations of art and science: curiosity and criticism.

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We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.

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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower
...it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence. Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber.

—Dr. Martin Luther King
The effort necessary to remain uncorrupted in an environment where fear is an integral part of everyday existence is not immediately apparent to those fortunate enough to live in states governed by the rule of law. Just laws do not merely prevent corruption by meting out impartial punishment to offenders. They also help to create a society in which people can fulfil the basic requirements necessary for the preservation of human dignity without recourse to corrupt practices. Where there are no such laws, the burden of upholding the principles of justice and common decency falls on the ordinary people. It is the cumulative effect on their sustained effort and steady endurance which will change a nation where reason and conscience are warped by fear into one where legal rules exist to promote man's desire for harmony and justice while restraining the less desirable destructive traits in his nature.

—Aung San Suu Kyi
Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

—Bertrand Russell
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

—Frank A. Clark
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

—Jose Ortega y Gasset
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

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Government of the self was the original basis for republican government, reflecting the view that civil society was much more than politics. Society was made up of men and women who gave order to their lives by entering into associations on a voluntary basis, quite apart from government, for all the various reasons of fellowship, philanthropy, faith and commerce.

—Hans L. Eicholz
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

—Albert Einstein
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before."

—Anonymous
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

—Napoleon Bonaparte
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most element of greatness — justice.

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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

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In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

—Karl Marx

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