Famous quotes containing the words formal, group and/or law:
“On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”
—Simone Weil (19101943)
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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