“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”
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“The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.”
“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.”
“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.”
“Women are the real architects of society.”
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.”
“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.”
“Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.”
“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.”
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”
“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.”
“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.”
“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
“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.”
“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.”
“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?”
“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.”