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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
– John W. Gardner
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
– John W. Gardner
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
– A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
– Emma Goldman
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
– Emma Goldman
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
– Alex Grey
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
– Walter Gropius
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How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
– John Gilmore
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
– Robert A. Heinlein
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
– Eric Hoffer
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
– Eric Hoffer
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
– Abbie Hoffman
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
– J. Edgar Hoover
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
– Victor Hugo
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
– John Andrew Holmes
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Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
– Jintao Hu
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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
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
– Henrik Ibsen
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
– Henrik Ibsen
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
– Ivan Illich
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
– William Ralph Inge
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
– Eugene Ionesco
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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
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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
– Pauline Kael
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Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
– Dirk Kempthorne
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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
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
– John F. Kennedy
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Terms like that, Humane Society, are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
– Charles Kuralt
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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
– John Kasich
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America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
– Peter Kropotkin
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
– Peter Kropotkin
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
– Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
– Vladimir Lenin
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
– John Lennon
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
– John Lennon
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
– John Lennon
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
– John Locke
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
– Lawrence G. Lovasik
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A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
– Christopher Lasch
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
– James Madison
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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
– David Mamet
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
– Nelson Mandela
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
– Thomas Mann
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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
– Marilyn Manson
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
– Dan Marino
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
– Karl Marx
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
– Karl Marx
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
– Karl Marx
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There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
– John McCarthy
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American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
– Marshall McLuhan
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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
– Marshall McLuhan
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
– Margaret Mead
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
– H. L. Mencken
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
– Karl A. Menninger
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
– John Stuart Mill
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
– John Stuart Mill
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Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
– Pervez Musharraf
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Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
– Preston Manning
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
– Peter Medawar
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
– Samantha Morton
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
– Ralph Nader
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Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
– John Naisbitt
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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
– David M. Ogilvy
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Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
– David M. Ogilvy
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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
– Margaret Oliphant
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
– Robert Orben
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
– Thomas Paine
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
– Theodore Parker
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
– C. Northcote Parkinson
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
– Alan Paton
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
– Pope John Paul II
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
– Pope John Paul II
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
– J. B. Priestley
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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
– Vladimir Putin
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
– Olof Palme
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
– Ayn Rand
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
– Ayn Rand
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
– Lee R. Raymond
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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
– Jim Rohn
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
– John Ruskin
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
– Bertrand Russell
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It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
– Johnny Rotten
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
– Johnny Rotten
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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
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
– Cal Thomas
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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