Quotes with society

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  • Bruce Springsteen I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Alain de Botton I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Benedict Wong I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
    The Works of Benjamin Disraeli
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Harriet Martineau If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Bill Mollison If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.2
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • John F. Kennedy If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Holly Compton If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
    Arthur Holly Compton
    American physicist
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  • Zig Ziglar If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oscar Wilde If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Vauvenargues If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Boris Sidis If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Criss Angel If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.
    Criss Angel
    American magician, illusionist and musician (1967 - )
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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