952 private quotes tagged society

“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.” — Guy Kawasaki

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“Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.” — Lord Acton

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“Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.” — Kesha

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“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.” — Annie Lennox

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“People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.” — Ken Kesey

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“What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.” — Tim Holden

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“The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.” — David Cameron

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“Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.” — David Rockefeller

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“This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable it's not morally right it's just not going to happen.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.” — David Cameron

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“If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.” — Luc de Clapiers

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“Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.” — Ajay Devgan

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“The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.” — Xun Zi

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“I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.” — Tony Campolo

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“It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.” — Julia Roberts

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“I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.” — Ishmael Reed

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“Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.” — Neale Donald Walsch

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“The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.” — Abbe Pierre

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“I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.” — J. Michael Straczynski

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