952 private quotes tagged society

“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.” — Daniel Webster

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“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.” — Herb Caen

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“Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.” — Hugh Kingsmill

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“Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.” — John Ralston Saul

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“I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.” — Erma Bombeck

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“Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.” — Barry Bonds

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“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.” — E. M. Forster

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“Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.” — David Ogilvy

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“Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.” — Sonia Sotomayor

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“We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.” — Jeff Miller

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“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.” — Edward Bond

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“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.” — Henrik Ibsen

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“It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.” — Herbert Read

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“Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.” — Huston Smith

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“Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.” — Yoko Ono

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

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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 A. Baldwin

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“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.” — Erma Bombeck

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“The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.” — John Stuart Mill

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“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.” — William Makepeace Thackeray

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“No emancipation without that of society.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.” — Anita Brookner

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“We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.” — Noam Chomsky

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