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Quote by Victor Hugo
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo

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God
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Victor Hugo
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. – Victor Hugo

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Women
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Victor Hugo
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo

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Happiness
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Victor Hugo
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Other Quotes from
Society
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Too much of our society looks for people to fail. – Roger Goodell

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Society

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries. – Desmond Tutu

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Society

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. – E. O. Wilson

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Society

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

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Society

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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. – Robert Benchley

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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. – Wayne Dyer

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Dissent

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? – Jimmy Connors

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Sports :: Tennis

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public. – Vito Fossella

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sad