"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

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"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

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"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached."

Friendship, Animals, Fools, Friends, Independence

"Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger."

Animals, Being, Company, Danger

"The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither."

Adventure, Hunting, Now, Running, Wood

"The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place."

Literature, Acquaintance, Influence

"A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces."

Travel, State

"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."

Leisure, Name, Names, Now, Pretty

"Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing."

Adventure, Discontent, Earth, Longing, Spirit

"It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!"

Time, Wrong

"Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk."

Adventure, Company, Moon, Stars, Talk

"Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know."

People, Now, Wood

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Society, Government, Transformation, Action, Responsibility

"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Truth, Social, Judgment, Reality

"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Society, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Society, Poor, Governance, Power, Conflict

"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Society, Medicine, Morality, Danger, Health

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Society, Diversity, Judgment, Reflection, Truth

"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Society, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Regret

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, People, Prisoners, Thoughts, Others

"Nobody's sane above the law."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Society, Law, Truth, Power, Regret

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

Stephen King, American Author

Society, Truth, Power, Wisdom