Society Quotes
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I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.
Jazz Jennings
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr
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We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.
Jen Sincero
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To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.
Emma Goldman
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Here are the ingredients of a tragedy: untreated mental illness, a society where life is cheap and crime is glamorized, and a ready supply of firearms.
Blase J. Cupich
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In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey Fisher
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We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.
P. D. James
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
Michel Foucault
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To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
Marina Abramovic
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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
John Paul Stevens
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Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
Peter Maurer
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I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.
Earle Brown
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault
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The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.
Liam Cunningham
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As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.
Alexander De Croo
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I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
Christine Quinn
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We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.
Arthur Ekirch
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The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
Helen Suzman