"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 "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."― Charles Horton Cooley "If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, ‘This is the way you want to be’. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people."― Iain Duncan Smith "I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."― Nelson Mandela