952 private quotes tagged society

“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” — Mason Cooley

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“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.” — Warren Buffett

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“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.” — Karl Marx

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“That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.” — Zakk Wylde

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“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” — William Blackstone

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“My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.” — Anna Kendrick

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“We should try to create the society we would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.” — Paul Krugman

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“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.” — Peter Hammill

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“We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.” — Marco Rubio

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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.” — John F. Kennedy

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“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” — Karl Marx

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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.” — Karl Marx

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“Society therefore is an ancient as the world.” — Voltaire

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“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.” — Oscar Wilde

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“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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