952 private quotes tagged society

“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.” — Benjamin Carson

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“Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.” — Thomas Frank

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“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” — C. Wright Mills

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“History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.” — Vladimir Putin

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“If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.” — Strom Thurmond

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“I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.” — Billy Graham

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“What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“The great hope of society is in individual character.” — William Ellery Channing

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“I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.” — Yani Tseng

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“Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.” — Marlon Wayans

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“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” — James Russell Lowell

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“But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.” — Joan D. Vinge

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“The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.” — Herbert Read

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“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.” — Thomas Sowell

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“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.” — William Ellery Channing

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“Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.” — Doris Lessing

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“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.” — Preston Manning

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“I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.” — Stockwell Day

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“Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.” — Vladimir Putin

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