952 private quotes tagged society

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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 now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.” — Lord Byron

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“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.” — Nelson Mandela

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“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.” — Robert Frost

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“I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.” — Edmund Burke

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“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.” — George Orwell

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“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” — John Lennon

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“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” — Angela Davis

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“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” — Robert Frost

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“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” — Oscar Wilde

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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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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan

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“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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