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Desecration is the smile on my face.

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

The gray has no chance against that smile. It vanishes in a wonderful haze of bright color.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.