952 private quotes tagged society

“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.” — Peter Fonda

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“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” — Milton Friedman

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“In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.” — Norman Douglas

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“Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.” — John W. Gardner

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“Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.” — A. J. Liebling

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“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.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” — Bill Vaughan

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“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi

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“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.” — John Ralston Saul

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“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?” — Irv Kupcinet

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“Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.” — Barry Bonds

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“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.” — Tupac Shakur

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“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.” — E. M. Forster

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“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.” — Alvin Toffler

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“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.” — Bill Vaughan

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“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.” — Timothy Leary

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“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.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.” — Charles Kuralt

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“Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.” — David Ogilvy

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