952 private quotes tagged society

“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.” — Thomas Hardy

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“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.” — David Suzuki

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“We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.” — David Ogden Stiers

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“Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.” — Xun Zi

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

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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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“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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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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“Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.” — Mao Zedong

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“Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.” — Chili Davis

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“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” — John W. Gardner

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“American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.” — Cal Thomas

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“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” — Ai Weiwei

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“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” — B. R. Ambedkar

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“I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.” — Margaret Mead

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“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?” — Kathleen Turner

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“That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.” — Charles Dickens

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“I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.” — Joel Osteen

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“Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.” — Billy Graham

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“If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.” — Sargent Shriver

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“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.” — Zig Ziglar

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“I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.” — Joseph Beuys

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