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If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society.

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• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Honor

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
  • Ethnic

• Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Society
  • Embrace

• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Another
  • Remorse

• What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Challenges
  • Down

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Political
  • Animal

• There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Society
  • Wife

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Society
  • Alone

• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Society
  • Teenagers

• I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Years
  • Sad
  • Lonely

• A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Women
  • Society
  • Care

• For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Society
  • Free
  • Chinese

• I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.

  

  Zendaya
  • Born
  • Nephew
  • Niece

• After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.

  

  Clive James
  • People
  • Light
  • City

• The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Pretty
  • Lost
  • Lose

• In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Expression

• If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Society
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