Society Quotes
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
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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 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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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils 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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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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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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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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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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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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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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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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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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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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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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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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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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I think everybody thinks about death, but I’m not afraid of it. That’s one thing about this society – why is death a taboo? When I die I know I’m going back to the earth, I have no illusions about that, I don’t believe in an afterlife – it’s a natural, biological and chemical process to disintegrate back into the earth. If I die and people want to come to a small gathering to mark my life, people can dress and behave however they want. They can play table tennis on my coffin if they want, I’m just a vessel that’s going back to the earth. It’s the cycle of life.
