Famous Quotes: Society

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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If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
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Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.
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I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
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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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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
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There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
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