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Society Quotes


"Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers."


"Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness."


"Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status."


"Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes."


"The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society."


"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."


"What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy."


"America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron."


"Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew."


"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."


"Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people beyond the man-made primitive citadels of gender, race, religion and sexual orientation."


"There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps."


"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."


"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible."


"We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."


"I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."


"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists."


"But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people."


"The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq."


"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."


"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."


"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."


"Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality."


"Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness."


"We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong."


"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."


"What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress."


"Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world."


"I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that."


"We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end."


"When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored."


"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."


"I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now."


"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."


"However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society."


"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."
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