Famous Quotes: Society

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
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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.
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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
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Women are the real architects of society.
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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.
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We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
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If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
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Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
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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.
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
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Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
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People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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