A Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Mignon McLaughlin
American - Journalist
June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers

Wayne Dyer

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Wayne Dyer

Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

Tertullian

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Richard P. Feynman

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Melina Marchetta

Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists.

Oliver Stone

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

Jacques Ellul

The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.

Claude Levi-Strauss

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

A. J. P. Taylor

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Margaret Mead

The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.

Wendell Berry

Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

Don Pendleton

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. Like my dad, who's not here, but he's here.That's why there's the Day of the Dead. There's such a connection with the dead.

Sandra Cisneros

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