<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Society - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224]]></link><description><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63572]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57101]]></link><description><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is the best precept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is the best precept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57094]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is that it stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079]]></link><description><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57081]]></link><description><![CDATA[...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature acts without masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature acts without masters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57077]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57063]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57058]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57058</guid></item></channel></rss>