Quote by Jacob Bronowski
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several h

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski

Other quotes by Jacob Bronowski

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. – Jacob Bronowski

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Science
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You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. – Jacob Bronowski

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environmental
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton

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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. – John Zorn

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Society

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, its at the bottom. Its the people who are in school systems that dont educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. – Clarence Thomas

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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Society

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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble! – Mark Twain

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