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The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

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• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Community
  • Financial

• Leadership means setting a moral tone.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Moral
  • Leadership
  • Tone

• 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
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Society
  • Problem
  • Growth

• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Society
  • Smiling

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Mind
  • Society
  • You

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Women
  • Society
  • Respond

• Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Vacation

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Long
  • Today
  • Moral

• In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Society
  • Free

• I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Society

• I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Music
  • Past
  • Mirror

• When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Business
  • Food
  • Trouble

• Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Giving
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Service

• The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Society
  • Moral