Society Quotes
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen -
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.
Bernard Berenson
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker -
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.
Karl Hess -
Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.
Ela Bhatt -
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
Celia Green -
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
Pim Fortuyn -
We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.
Dalai Lama -
Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.
Isabel Allende -
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carter -
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
Joe Biden -
Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
Eugene Linden
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We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.
Katharine Hayhoe -
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
Bill Gates -
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Andrew Young -
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
Jimmy Carter -
We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs.
Mohammad bin Salman -
Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Susie Orbach -
I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.
Mila Kunis -
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
Jacob Zuma -
We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.
Deborah Reber