society
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘society’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it’s not for them. It’s for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.” -Danica McKellar
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“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I’m very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.” -Tom…
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“Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.” -Herbert Spencer
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“Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society.” -Ani DiFranco
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“We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.” -David Suzuki
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“I’m an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.” -Jessica Hagedorn
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“What is missing from today’s dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.” -Jenny McCarthy
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“What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.” -Doris Lessing
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“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.” -Anne Lamott
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“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.” -Aneurin Bevan
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“I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.” -Ajay Devgan
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“What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn’t value a white man because he’s a white man, but also doesn’t value a woman because she’s a woman, or a black because he’s a black.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.” -Garrett Hardin
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“There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.” -David Rockefeller
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“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we’re going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years – the last 50 years really – has lost…
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“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’” -Pete Townshend
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“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.” -Noam Chomsky
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“America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.” -Peter Kropotkin
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“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.” -Annie Lennox
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“It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.” -Julia Roberts
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“Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it’s almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
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“Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.” -Nicolas Chamfort
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“No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we…
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“Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.” -Neale Donald Walsch
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“The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.” -David Cameron
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“We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we’re not there yet.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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“I think politics is important. It’s how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don’t understand why some people don’t.” -Chester Brown
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“People don’t want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.” -Ken Kesey
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“I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.” -Ishmael Reed
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“If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.” -Luc de Clapiers
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“The question I asked Georges has now become a general one – You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.” -Abbe Pierre
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“But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It’s had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white…
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“Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don’t know the cause.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.” -Judith Light
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“Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.” -Zachary Quinto
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“Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.” -Lord Acton
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“The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.” -John Updike
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“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.” -John Naisbitt
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“It’s about time that society accepts people for who they are.” -Kesha
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“The trouble is it’s very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.” -Emma Thompson
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“I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.” -Andrew Cuomo
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“The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we’re supposed to be monogamous when we’re not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.” -Rachel Hunter
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“Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.” -J. Edgar Hoover
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“Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.” -Charles Kuralt
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“No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.” -Charles E. Wilson
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“The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.” -Pamela Anderson
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“Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.” -Simon Mainwaring
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“Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.” -Nat Turner
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“Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.” -Irving Babbitt
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“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can’t get out of it if we would.” -Thomas Hardy
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“But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.” -Rick…
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“American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.” -Jack Kemp
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“I did it to myself. It wasn’t society… it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.” -Ray Charles
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“In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?” -Jessica Savitch
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“Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.” -Denis Diderot
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“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.” -W. H. Auden
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“The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.” -Madeleine Albright
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“The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.” -Bell Hooks
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“What’s done to children, they will do to society.” -Karl A. Menninger
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“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.” -James Connolly
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“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.” -Malcolm Muggeridge
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“The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.” -Alexis Carrel
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“But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.” -Audre Lorde
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“I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.” -Marco Rubio
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“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.” -Angela Davis
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“It’s a repressive society where you can’t be horrible, I’m not horrible, they made me horrible, I’m just honest.” -Johnny Rotten
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“Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don’t know about categorizing them in terms of class I’m a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.” -Tom Hiddleston
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“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.” -Wendell Willkie
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“Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.” -Jinato Hu
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“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.” -Carter Burwell
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“The runway symbolizes something in society that’s very intimidating to women.” -Tyra Banks
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“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.” -Abu Bakr
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“In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.” -Alex Grey
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“I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society’s care.” -Camille Paglia
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“But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, ’cause you’re not going to get it from what’s around you. And society isn’t going to give it to you.” -Jerry Garcia
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“Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.” -Lin Yutang
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“The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” -Elie Wiesel
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“That’s one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.” -Jeff Bridges
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“The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.” -Alfred Adler
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“In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation’s laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.” -Bob Ney
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“The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.” -Jean Cocteau
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“American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” -William J. Brennan, Jr.
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“All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.” -John T. Flynn
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“Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“America’s a very traumatized society.” -Alanis Morissette
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“That’s what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they’re stuck in…
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“The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.” -Clara Zetkin
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“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.” -Germaine Greer
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“My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you’re on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities – a ‘we’re all in it together’ society, you should…
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“I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.” -Scott Adams
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“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.” -Henry Van Dyke
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“If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one’s identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.” -Jon…
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“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.” -Emily Bronte
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“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” -Sonia Sotomayor
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“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” -Emile M. Cioran
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“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.” -Eugene Ionesco
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“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.” -Theodor Adorno
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“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!” -Stephen Covey
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“Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.” -Victoria Woodhull
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“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” -Ruben Blades
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“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.” -David Hume
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“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” -Thomas Browne
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“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” -Anwar Sadat
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“We live in a disposable society. It’s easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name – we call it recycling.” -Neil LaBute
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“I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.” -Terry Pratchett
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“All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.” -Desmond Tutu
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“Militant feminists are pro-choice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” -George Byron
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“There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.” -Ben Stein
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“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.” -Shirley Chisholm
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“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.” -Tom Stoppard
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“If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.” -Stella Adler
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“The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.” -Olof Palme
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“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.” -Emma Goldman
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“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” -Alex Haley
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“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.” -Ralph Nader
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“Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.” -David Bohm
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“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” -Bayard Rustin
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“But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.” -Muhammad Yunus
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“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.” -Janet Jackson
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“I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?” -J. K. Rowling
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“Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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“The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.” -John Stuart Mill
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“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” -John Locke
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“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.” -Alice Walker
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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.” -Augustus Y. Napier
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“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.” -Washington Irving
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“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.” -B. F. Skinner
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“What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I’m a good person to society. That’s hard. The talent, that’s a gift. I just came here like that.” -Erykah Badu
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“The concept of the ‘good ol’ days’ must be one of our society’s biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.” -Bo Bennett
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“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.” -Simone Weil
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“I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.” -Jermaine Jackson
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“Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.” -Deepak Chopra
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“Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don’t succeed, you won’t be in your profession for long. In our society, it’s not about good or bad. It’s about who’s on top.” -Chili Davis
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“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.” -Lord Byron
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“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.” -E. O. Wilson
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“Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.” -Steven Patrick Morrissey
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“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society… It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.” -Stephen Harper
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“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.” -Cal Thomas
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“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.” -John Burroughs
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“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” -Mason Cooley
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“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.” -George Santayana
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“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one’s neighbors.” -Robert W. Service
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