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"The whole system of society tells you what to do."
"I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't."
"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."
"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."
"RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society."
"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."
"Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3, 000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society."
"You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious."
"Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty."
"I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to."
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."
"I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it."
"On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform."
"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important."
"I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt."
"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
"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."
"I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal."
"You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind."
"My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society."
"I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for."
"Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head."
"If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company."
"I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society."
"As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices."
"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."
"Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society."
"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."
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
"We are what make up society."
"The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle."
"I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them."
"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."
"My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society."
"You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us."
"If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already."
"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions."
"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."
"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."
"We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste."
"Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes."
"I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine."
"I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked."
"When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society."
"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."
"Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless."
"If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems."
"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."
"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard."
"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society."
"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time."
"Too much of our society looks for people to fail."
"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."
"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."
"A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side."
"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."
"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."
"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."
"And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette."
"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
"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."
"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration."
"The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group."
"I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society."
"Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society."
"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."
"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."
"It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society."
"Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society."
"One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse."
"I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns."
"Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society."
"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."
"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."
"Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters."
"It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office."
"So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in."
"I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it."
"Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable."
"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."
"For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries."
"Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society."
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."
"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."
"He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist."
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society."
"You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form."
"Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you."
"I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts."
"If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values."
"And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers."
"Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles."
"Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory."
"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."
"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."
"In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff."
"Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'"
"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."
"I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is."
"And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time."
"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."
"Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil."
"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."
"Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society."
"I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult."
"We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."
"Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?"
"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
"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."
"Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families."
"A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives."
"Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts."
"Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility."
"In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted."
"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."
"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
"And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?"
"Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with."
"Australia has an increasingly multicultural society."
"I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again."
"I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large."
"Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community."
"I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret 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. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them."
"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
"The public school has become the established church of secular society."
"A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power."
"I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them."
"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them."
"I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society."
"Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is."
"Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society."
"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."
"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."
"My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help."
"I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs."
"The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society."
"We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security."
"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"
"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it."
"In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves."
"All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?"
"I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats."
"A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society."
"In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act."
"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."
"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect."
"I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves."
"Terms like that, 'Humane Society, ' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
"I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters."
"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."
"When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots, ' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not."
"My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better."
"Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight."
"Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of."
"When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society."
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."
"All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports."
"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
"I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems."
"I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically."
"If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society."
"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
"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."
"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."
"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals."
"Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage."
"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."
"To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society."
"He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else."
"I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day."
"Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society."
"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
"The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values."
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
"What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands."
"Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble."
"At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship."
"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."
"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."
"The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive."
"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."
"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."
"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
"Everything in our society is so purposeful."
"Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part."
"I want to initiate a change in society in the long term."
"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."
"This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened."
"When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit."
"But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition."
"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."
"In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same."
"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."
"You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is."
"We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society."
"We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended."
"I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism."
"I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society."
"I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society."
"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."
"Our whole society is instantaneous."
"Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."
"But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil."
"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."
"Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented."
"In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations."
"What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society."
"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
"As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man."
"It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England."
"A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing."
"You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society."
"Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself."
"The role of art in society differs for every artist."
"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."
"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before."
"Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down."
"Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe."
"Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church."
"Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces."
"If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society."
"Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside."
"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
"We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives."
"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."
"We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children."
"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
"Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society."
"A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not."
"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."
"In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint."
"If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves."
"If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society."
"I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of."
"We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore."
"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"
"I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society."
"But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society."
"You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."
"Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society."
"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society."
"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."
"We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference."
"The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves."
"I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world."
"If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that."
"My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak."
"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."
"I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit."
"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."
"After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society."
"Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product."
"The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity."
"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."
"Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society."
"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."
"The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff."
"You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society."
"Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society."
"How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications."
"Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction."
"What we do as a society is seek simple answers."
"If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it."
"No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation."
"In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished."
"It's upsetting to be a man in our society."
"For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences."
"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."
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
"There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society."
"In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective."
"Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion."
"The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now."
"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
"At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs."
"Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society."
"Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills."
"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."
"Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence."
"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes."
"Artists are going to be the metronome of this society."
"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence."
"It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe."
"It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance."
"When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society."
"Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society."
"Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN."
"One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way."
"It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know."
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."
"Sports are a microcosm of society."
"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
"We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society."
"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society."
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
"A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
"But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security."
"A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin."
"Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society."
"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
"I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors."
"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 was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go."
"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."
"I don't think we live in a particularly equal society."
"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."
"The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests."
"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."
"What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism."
"Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector."
"Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues."
"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
"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."
"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
"I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor."
"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."
"We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet."
"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."
"I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security."
"Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other."
"No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good."
"I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored."
"We need proof in our society."
"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
"Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can."
"It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates."
"As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in."
"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
"Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause."
"When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society."
"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."
"I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form."
"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."
"It's about time that society accepts people for who they are."
"Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things."
"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."
"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."
"We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society."
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
"Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society."
"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."
"Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse."
"Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities."
"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."
"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"
"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."
"American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair."
"But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society."
"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself."
"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."
"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer."
"I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society."
"Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well."
"Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment."
"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."
"We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society."
"If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live."
"The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society."
"No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society."
"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."
"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
"Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society."
"A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate."
"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."
"I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father."
"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society."
"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed."
"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave."
"The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction."
"What's done to children, they will do to society."
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
"In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized."
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."
"We've turned into a whining society."
"The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women."
"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest."
"We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture."
"Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today."
"I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person."
"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
"For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community."
"Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things."
"All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first."
"America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society."
"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment."
"There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind."
"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."
"In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes."
"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."
"But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you."
"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world."
"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
"Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks."
"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."
"The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream."
"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."
"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."
"Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups."
"Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently."
"I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one."
"America's a very traumatized society."
"My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."
"The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society."
"We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling."
"Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century."
"There is no higher value in our society than integrity."
"Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense."
"No emancipation without that of society."
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
"The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people."
"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong."
"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."
"Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society."
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
"I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost."
"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."
"All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries."
"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
"There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak."
"A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion."
"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."
"I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?"
"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."
"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
"But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities."
"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
"Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times."
"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity."
"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
"Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together."
"I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality."
"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
"The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success."
"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."
"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that."
"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
"Women are the real architects of society."
"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."
"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness."
"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."
"Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."
"I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam."
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
"One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action."
"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."
"Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society."
"Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society."
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored."
"Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape."
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society."
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
"I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors."
"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand."
"What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society."
"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."
"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."
"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."
"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
"If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."
"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."
"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
"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."
"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"
"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."
"A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good."
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
"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."
"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
"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."
"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."
"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society."
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
"In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards."
"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
"I think the first duty of society is justice."
"A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society."
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
"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."
"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should."
"Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty."
"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
"I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises."
"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."
"Society is at odds with itself."
"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."
"Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."
"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."
"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously."
"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."
"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."
"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."
"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
"In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again."
"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes."
"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body."
"Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society."
"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities."
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society."
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."
"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
"I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society."
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"
"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy."
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
"Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals."
"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."
"I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another."
"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."
"The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
"It is good for society to have this introspection."
"In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes."
"Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units."
"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."
"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."
"The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do."
"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
"Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society."
"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
"Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society."
"Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive."
"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."
"It is not a fragrant world."
"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day."
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."
"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."
"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."
"I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest."
"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"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."
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
