Society Quotes
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A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.
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What I am describing is not only a society dominated by corporatist structures, but by the received wisdom of a corporatist atmosphere: one in which the élites are interest-driven, whatever their jobs. And so the society is gradually being redrawn to suit this ethic-free system.
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Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
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I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.
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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
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I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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I try not to be mean for the sake of being mean, and if I do do a joke or a tweet or something that is at someone's expense - and those are my fine lines; obviously they're there - I want it to be something that's pretty much across the board we all as a society agree this is bad.
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I think gender parity is a crucial part of any healthy society. It's applicable to the entire world.
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
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Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.
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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.
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Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.
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If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.
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Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
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We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.
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I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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Women find little pleasure in the society of women.
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If you not longer let the community hear all of it's significant voices - you begin to have; a single narrow view of: the problems of the society, of the solutions of society - and you begun soon or later overwhelmed by the society you don't understand.
