952 private quotes tagged society

“The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.” — Alexis Carrel

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“People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.” — Max Cannon

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“Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.” — Michel Foucault

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“Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.” — Wole Soyinka

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“There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.” — Ian MacKaye

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“The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.” — Tyra Banks

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“I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.” — Charles Kuralt

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“Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.” — Abu Bakr

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“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.” — Christopher Lasch

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“I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.” — Charles Kuralt

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“The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.” — Elia Kazan

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“We've turned into a whining society.” — Billy Corgan

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“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.” — Noam Chomsky

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“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.” — Peter Fonda

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“We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.” — Bryan Cranston

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“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.” — Henry Adams

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“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.” — Roland Barthes

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“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” — Vince Lombardi

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“I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.” — A. Whitney Brown

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“While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.” — Rutherford B. Hayes

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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” — James A. Baldwin

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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” — Adam Smith

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“What is a society without a heroic dimension?” — Jean Baudrillard

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“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.” — Norman Douglas

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