"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

Society, Thought, Independence, Sin

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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

John Green, American Author

Society, Absence, Media, Reality, Celebrity

"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Violence, Terrorism, Conformity

"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

John Green, American Author

Society, Feminism, Expression, Art, Power

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Society, Purity, Values, Competition, Selfishness

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Society, Judgment, Behavior, Truth, Humanity

"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, Woman, Mother, Sister, Daughter

"A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time."

Time

"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."

Being

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

Appreciation

"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on."

Sex

"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home."

Home

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

Politics

"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock."

Body

"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land."

Vision

"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."

Love

"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."

Idealism