Quote by James Baldwin
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with leg

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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Purity
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. – James Baldwin

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respect
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. – Herbert Read

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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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Were an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. – James Hillman

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. – Noam Chomsky

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