952 private quotes tagged society

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.” — Isaac Asimov

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“The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.” — Evelyn Glennie

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“Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.” — Herman Kahn

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“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” — Elie Wiesel

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“When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.” — Andrea Jung

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“People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.” — Henry Louis Gates

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“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.” — Isabel Allende

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“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.” — Miriam Makeba

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“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.” — Samuel Richardson

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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” — Brian Tracy

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“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.” — Lech Walesa

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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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“The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.” — Tom Hanks

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“My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.” — Andrew Weil

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“Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.” — Robert Blair

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“The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” — James Baldwin

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“Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.” — Delphine de Girardin

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“An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.” — George Soros

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“The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.” — Gaston Caperton

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“I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!” — Henrik Ibsen

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“I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.” — Henrik Ibsen

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