Society Quotes
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When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."
Elaine Equi -
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne
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Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
Eugene H. Peterson -
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
Henrik Ibsen -
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
John Maynard Keynes -
The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.
George David Birkhoff -
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
Alix Kates Shulman -
Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
Edward Bernays
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What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.
Anne Holt -
In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.
Ervin Laszlo -
A really failing society has a lot of rules or laws.
Bill Mollison -
Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to mention our spiritual health - to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society?
Andrew Lam -
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
Mike Tyson -
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
Raymond Chandler
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We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.
Kevin Hassett -
The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and his moral vigor. The society is made of individuals. What is true for an individual is also true for the society. A society that is not founded on moral values is doomed to fall.
Ali Sina -
Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
Charlie Jane Anders -
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.
Elinor Gadon -
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
Jude Law
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
Alfredo Jaar -
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
Lester Bowie -
Our society needs to become less fragmented and more open to alternative viewpoints.
Susan Collins -
Between man and his social environment there is a reciprocal action. Men make society what it is and society makes men what they are, and the result is therefore a kind of vicious circle.
Errico Malatesta