952 private quotes tagged society

“Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.” — Robert Bork

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“A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.” — Jonathan Sacks

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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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“If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.” — Jose Saramago

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“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.” — George Saunders

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“A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.” — Adam Carolla

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“Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.” — John Andrew Holmes

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“Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.” — Shirley Manson

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“I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.” — Charles Rangel

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“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.” — Joseph Ratzinger

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“We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.” — Tony Benn

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“Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.” — Haruki Murakami

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“You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.” — Adam Carolla

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“The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.” — Jose Mourinho

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“Our whole society is instantaneous.” — Bryan Cranston

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“I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.” — Quincy Jones

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

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“But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.” — Condoleezza Rice

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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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“If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.” — Lewis Thomas

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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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“Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.” — Lester Bangs

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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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