Famous Quotes: Society

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
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Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
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The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
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You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
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Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
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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.
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I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
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Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
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