Famous Quotes: Society

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
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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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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
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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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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
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Everything in our society is so purposeful.
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The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
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