Society

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift ...

"Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity — as long as you don’t point out that people are different." - Colin Quinn ...

"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts." - Bill Vaughan ...

“If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy." - Ralph Ellison ...

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from ...

"If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk- If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race." - Bill Cosby ...

"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much." - Walter Lippmann ...

"In this country “American” means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."              - Toni Morrison ...

"It's too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis." - George Burns ...

"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained." - John Stuart Mill ...