Society Quotes
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In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.
Andrew Mango -
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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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
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 -
I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.
Evan Wolfson -
Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
Joseph Murray -
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
Lester Bowie -
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Albert Camus
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Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
Julia Butterfly Hill -
Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.
Isabella Lovin -
All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.
Margaret Mitchell -
We're not in control of circumstances, but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society.
Judith Butler
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We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
Nick Harkaway -
Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.
Newton Lee -
I think it's almost impossible to impose a free and liberal society from the outside.
Alan Charles Korsun -
Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.
Eve Ensler -
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
Saul Bellow -
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
Miguel de Cervantes
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This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff.
Sydney Schanberg -
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Elizabeth Ann Seton -
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
Simone de Beauvoir -
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Eugene McCarthy