952 private quotes tagged society

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.” — Jerry Garcia

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“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?” — Honore de Balzac

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“Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.” — Honore de Balzac

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“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.” — John Stuart Mill

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“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.” — John Locke

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“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.” — John Burroughs

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“Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.” — Neil Armstrong

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“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.” — Christopher Lasch

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“There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“I think the first duty of society is justice.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.” — Robert W. Service

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“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.” — William S. Burroughs

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“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.” — George Santayana

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“He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.” — Theodor Adorno

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“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.” — John Ruskin

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“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.” — Bashar al-Assad

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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.” — Edward Bernays

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“Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.” — Busta Rhymes

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“What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.” — Colin Powell

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