Quotes with society

  • Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
  • We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
  • The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
  • As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
  • The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
  • Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
  • There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
  • A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
  • Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Carroll Quigley There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
    The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Karl Marx The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Alice Walker All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Jung Chang Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Confucius Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • A. Whitney Brown I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
    A. Whitney Brown
    American writer and comedian (1952 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Penn Warren I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism - that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
    Robert Penn Warren
     
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Eugène Ionesco No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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