Quotes with society

Quotes 401 till 420 of 564.

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Carroll Quigley The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Germaine Greer The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Martin Luther King The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • C. L. R. James The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Barry Lam The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • John Madden The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • James Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boris Spassky The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bell Hooks The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
    Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • William Butler Yeats The preference for certain subjects in any art is a sign of compact between the artist and society.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Walter Lippmann The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Roy Hattersley 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.
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  • Ivan Illich The public school has become the established church of secular society.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Abbe Pierre 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
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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