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“And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?”— Thomas Babington Macaulay
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“In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.”— Ray Dalio
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“Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.”— Dirk Kempthorne
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“We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.”— Martin Sheen
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“I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.”— Steven Seagal
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“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”— Adrienne Rich
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“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”— Theodore Parker
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“I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.”— Nathan Fillion
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“A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.”— John Charles Polanyi
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“Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.”— George Mason
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“Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.”— Ezra Miller
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“Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.”— Ahmet Necdet Sezner
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“Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.”— Julie Bishop
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“There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.”— Naguib Mahfouz
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“Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.”— Sarah Zettel
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“You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.”— Colin Farrell
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“Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.”— Warren Farrell
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“The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.”— Talcott Parsons
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“Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.”— Johann Most
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“The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.”— John Madden
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“I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.”— David Miliband
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“Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.”— John Kasich
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“In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.”— Ethan Hawke
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“I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.”— H. G. Bissinger
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“But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.”— Peter L. Berger