Famous Quotes: Society

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
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The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
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Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
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Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
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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.
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In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
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I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
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