Quotes with society

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  • Friedrich von Schlegel What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Karl Menninger What is done to children, they will do to society.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Walter Lippmann What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Mack R. Douglas When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
    Mack R. Douglas
    American author
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  • Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
    Wade House: one of Wisconsins first stagecoach inns, its preservation and restoration, Kohler Co., 1957, p. 7
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bayard Rustin When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Orson Welles When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • B. B. King When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ben Shapiro When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Abdallah II When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Kofi Annan When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aldous Huxley which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Dylan While one who sings with his tongue on fire
    Gargles in the rat race choir
    Bent out of shape from society's pliers
    Cares not to come up any higher
    But rather get you down in the hole
    That he's in
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Washington Irving Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No, no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Roland Barthes Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafĂ© to the speech at a formal dinner.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Antonin Artaud With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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