Land: A part of the earth's surface, con...

Society

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

- Ambrose Bierce

Quote of the Day

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

- Neil Tennant

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Life

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Ambrose Bierce

Ambition Desire Friends

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

- Ambrose Bierce

Democrats

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

- Ambrose Bierce

Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

- Ambrose Bierce

Change

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

- Ambrose Bierce

Body Water Man World

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

- Ambrose Bierce

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When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

- Bob Filner

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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

- Randolph Bourne

Society End

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

- Henry Steele Commager

Society Want People

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

- Ernest Istook

Society Will

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

- Adrienne Clarkson