Quotes with society

Quotes 361 till 380 of 564.

  • Cyril Parkinson The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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  • Marquis de Custine The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • W. H. Auden The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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  • John Ruskin The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Niels Bohr The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.
    Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, December 10, 1975
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • B. W. Powe The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 83
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Begum Aga Khan The development of a country has to start at the foundation of the society, the family.
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Bob Schwartz The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.
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  • Carroll Quigley The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Sandra Day O'Connor The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
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  • Bell Hooks The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. --From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alexis Carrel The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Georges Bernanos The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Caitlin Moran The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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