952 private quotes tagged society

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.” — Vladimir Putin

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“I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.” — Alain de Botton

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“Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.” — Karl Rove

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“Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.” — Keith O'Brien

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“Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.” — Keith O'Brien

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“Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.” — Jack Kingston

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“As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.” — Theodore Sturgeon

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“I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.” — Ron Paul

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“Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.” — Zachary Quinto

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“The happiness of society is the end of government.” — John Adams

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“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.” — Augustus Y. Napier

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“Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.” — Thomas Szasz

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“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” — Walter Lippmann

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“The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.” — Dorothy Fields

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“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.” — Salvador Dali

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“We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.” — Marianne Williamson

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“As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.” — David Korten

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“It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.” — Jacques Barzun

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“I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.” — Zoe Saldana

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“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” — George Byron

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“I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'” — Pete Townshend

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“The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.” — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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