"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages." ― Zebulon Pike Topic(s): Society More From Zebulon Pike "If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name." "May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country." "Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation." More In Society "Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we’re sure of."― Vidal Sassoon "Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."― Recep Tayyip Erdogan "We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."― Marilyn Manson