Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Quotes to Explore
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
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Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
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Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.
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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
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'The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world'
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was - which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
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I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy.
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.
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One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.
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The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.
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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
