952 private quotes tagged society

“Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.” — Natan Sharansky

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“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.” — William Makepeace Thackeray

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“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.” — James Earl Jones

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“We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.” — Talcott Parsons

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“Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.” — Hans-Georg Gadamer

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“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.” — Carter Burwell

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“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.” — Lauryn Hill

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“It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.” — Martha Plimpton

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“Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.” — Martha Beck

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“Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.” — Dennis Prager

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“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.” — Dennis Prager

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“Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.” — Tom Hiddleston

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“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.” — Charles Horton Cooley

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“There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.” — Garrett Hardin

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“What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.” — Rand Paul

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“Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” — John Stuart Mill

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“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.” — Michel Foucault

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“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.” — David Hume

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