Quotes with society

Quotes 441 till 460 of 564.

  • Herbert Marcuse The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Malcolm X The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Bush The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Boris Pasternak The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Anwar Sadat There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
    Anwar Sadat
    Egyptian politician (1918 - 1981)
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  • William S. Burroughs There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • George Gordon There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
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  • Norman Douglas 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.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • W. M. Thackeray There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Margaret Thatcher There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Ben Carson There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Hazel Scott There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
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