Society Quotes
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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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 that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
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Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Automation is great for profits, but it's a real potential trouble area for society.
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The university cannot be an ivory tower, far away from the society, removed from the practical accomplishments of the Revolution. If such an attitude is maintained, the university will continue giving our society lawyers that we do not need.
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A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.
