952 private quotes tagged society

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

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“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.” — Marilyn Manson

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

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“I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.” — George McGovern

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“Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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

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

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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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“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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“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.” — Emily Bronte

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“I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.” — Charles Kuralt

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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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“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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