Adam Smith Quotes
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
Quotes to Explore
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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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.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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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.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
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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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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
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In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.
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The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
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My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.
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I am dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
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It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
