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Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
– Robert Casey
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
– Bianca Jagger
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This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable it's not morally right it's just not going to happen.
– Michael Bloomberg
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
– Jack Kevorkian
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
– Barbara Jordan
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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
– Herbert Read
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
– Xun Zi
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
– Doris Lessing
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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
– Benjamin Carson
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
– Simone Weil
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
– Charles R. Swindoll
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There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
– Constance Baker Motley
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There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
– Arlen Specter
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
– Kofi Annan
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There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
– Catherine Deneuve
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
– Naguib Mahfouz
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There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.
– Ian MacKaye
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
– Ramsey Clark
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.
– Jo Brand
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Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
– Sarah Zettel
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
– Don DeLillo
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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?
– James Hillman
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
– Barbara Bush
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
– Barry White
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The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
– Barry Commoner
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
– Phil McGraw
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
– Pamela Anderson
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
– Lily Tomlin
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The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
– Emma Thompson
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The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
– Edwin Louis Cole
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
– Gary Bauer
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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
– Lester B. Pearson
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The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.
– Tyra Banks
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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
– Maya Lin
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The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
– Salman Rushdie
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
– Adrienne Rich
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The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.
– Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
– Abbe Pierre
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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
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The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
– Clara Zetkin
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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
– John Paul Stevens
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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
– David Cameron
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
– J. Michael Straczynski
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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
– Herbert Read
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
– Salman Rushdie
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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.
– Kevin Smith
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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.
– Robert W. Service
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
– John Stuart Mill
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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.
– Tom Shadyac
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The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
– Jose Mourinho
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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.
– Ron Paul
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
– Christopher Lasch
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The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
– Morrie Schwartz
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
– John Zorn
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The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
– Peter Guber
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
– Edward Bond
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
– Karl Marx
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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
– Thom Mayne
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The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
– Tim Holden
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The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.
– Tim Holden
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
– A. J. Liebling
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
– Paul Wellstone
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
– Mark Twain
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
– Rachel Hunter
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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
– Herbert Read
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
– John Updike
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The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
– Constance Baker Motley
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
– Edward Bernays
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
– Talcott Parsons
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
– Terry Eagleton
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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
– Elia Kazan
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
– Yoko Ono
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
– Zakk Wylde
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That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
– Paul Ryan
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That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
– Herschel Walker
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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
– Kenneth L. Pike
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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
– Pope Paul VI
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Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.
– Henning Mankell
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
– Honore de Balzac
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
– J. J. Abrams
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
– Tom Peters
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
– Joseph Ratzinger
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Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
– Billie Jean King
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Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
– Judi Dench
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Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.
– Bryan Cranston
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
– Abu Bakr
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
– Simone de Beauvoir
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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
– John Major
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
– Kurt Russell
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
– Charles De Secondat
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
– Edward Abbey
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