Famous Quotes: Society

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
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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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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
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We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
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But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
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Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
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Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.
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Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
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