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Quote by George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana

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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana

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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. – Valerie Solanas

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened. – Jack Kevorkian

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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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