“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.”
“Letting go is easy: it's all downhill.”
“As they say, 'It's all downhill from cupcakes.”