Society Quotes
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What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.
Dalai Lama
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All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.
Ephraim Mirvis
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Educated men - 'civilized,' as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
Peter Kropotkin
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How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.
Dalia Mogahed
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Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
Steve Chabot
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The core problem in our society is political correctness.
Peter Thiel
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I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.
Joanne Harris
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Education imparted by heart can bring revolution in the society.
Abul Kalam Azad
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When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
Plato
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Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.
Dalai Lama
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For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.
Marcy Kaptur
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Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.
Ameen Rihani
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Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
Paul Singer
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Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.
John Stuart Mill
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Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
Jan Koum
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Civil society completely displaces government and converts into a global, cosmopolitan melting pot.
Aleksandr Dugin
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How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
Dennis Prager
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We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.
John Fleming
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The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
Walter Weyl
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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
Wilhelm Dilthey
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In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
Bernard Bailyn
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
Thomas Carlyle
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Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose
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I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.
Anthony Robbins