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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
– Nancy Friday
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
– John Adams
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At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
– Whittaker Chambers
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
– Whittaker Chambers
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At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.
– Joseph Rotblat
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
– Charles De Secondat
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As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
– Lauryn Hill
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As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
– Jim DeMint
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As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
– David Korten
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As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
– Kenzaburo Oe
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As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
– Theodore Sturgeon
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As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.
– Michelle Bachelet
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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
– Daniel H. Wilson
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As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
– Joe Baca
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
– Rainn Wilson
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
– George Soros
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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
– Robert A. Heinlein
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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
– Jim Leach
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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
– Jung Chang
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
– Paulo Coelho
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All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
– Joseph Lancaster
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Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
– Mike Rogers
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
– Jack Kingston
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Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
– Paul Ryan
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
– Robert Trout
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A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
– Scott Weiland
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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
– Wilhelm Dilthey
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A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
– Charles W. Pickering
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.
– Robert Tew
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
– James Cook
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