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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Our society is not a community but merely a collection of isolated family units.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Never respect men merely for their riches but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height but for its use.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it he lives his religion as much as he is able otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

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