Society Quotes
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But I do think that when we choose the easy path, where people or society reward us for being what they want us to be, against who we really are, a kind of death occurs. To the soul.
Bill Konigsberg
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If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.
Eda LeShan
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Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.
Slash Guns N' Roses
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I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
Simon Winchester
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman
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It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.
Bryan Kest
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I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
Steve Buscemi
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There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.
Gautama Buddha
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Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.
Tiger Woods
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As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.
Evelyn Underhill
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
John Ruskin
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A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.
Emil Cioran
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
Eugene V. Debs
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Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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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I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.
Stieg Larsson
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Tim Robbins
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No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.
Hillary Clinton
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We should stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.
Geert Wilders