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Society Quotes


"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."


"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."


"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."


"When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?"


"I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins."


"Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property."


"What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands."


"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society."


"And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer."


"These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries."


"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."



"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."


"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."


"If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?"


"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."


"What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way."


"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."


"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."


"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."


"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."


"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."


"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society."


"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."


"They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business."


"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."


"War never leaves where it found a nation."


"We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist."


"The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion."


"You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to."


"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."


"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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