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“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.”— Jack Kingston
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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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“It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.”— Simon Mainwaring
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“It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.”— William Hague
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.”— Honore de Balzac
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“The happiness of society is the end of government.”— John Adams