"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."
-Henrik Ibsen
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"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.“
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"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
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"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society."
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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