952 private quotes tagged society

“There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.” — Jacques Cousteau

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“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” — Ronald Reagan

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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Music is always a commentary on society.” — Frank Zappa

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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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“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.” — Paulo Coelho

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“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” — Emma Goldman

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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” — Greek Proverb

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“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.” — Ayn Rand

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“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.” — Karl Marx

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“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” — Albert Einstein

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“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.” — Warren Buffett

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“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.” — Oscar Wilde

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“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.” — Carl Sandburg

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“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” — Aristotle

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“Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” — Mason Cooley

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“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.” — John Wooden

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“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.” — Samuel Johnson

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