Society Quotes
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
John Ruskin
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When you look at police violence, over the last three or four years, whether you call it a social, economic or racial thing, these are the guys that we're supposed to trust. These are the guys who are given these guns and weapons to protect us. Not to use them upon us, but to protect us, and they can't even get it right. So, if they can't get it right, how can you fault a society for fearing them, and fearing them in a way that makes them want to take up arms and fight back.
Edwin Hodge
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We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.
Radhika Apte
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In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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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
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Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.
Carolyn Custis James
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What's done to the children is done to society.
Gautama Buddha
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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Peter L. Berger
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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
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Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.
Isabella Lovin
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
Alfredo Jaar
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
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Soldiers out here have kept us safe for so long, that there is essentially no real danger in this society.
Bill Whittle
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I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
Michael Newdow
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Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.
John Stuart Mill
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The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of world economic systems, our amazing success in harnessing the powers of nature to the betterment of the human condition in health, subsistence, longevity. These are the hallmarks of our society - its most successful elements.
Arthur Demarest
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
John Maynard Keynes
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Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
Jim Ryun
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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
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
Albert Camus
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Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable...
Harry S Truman
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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