One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye

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

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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. – Tom Stoppard

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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not? – Kurt Russell

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