“There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.”
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“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.”
“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”
“Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.”
“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.”
“A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.”
“The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.”
“We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”
“No emancipation without that of society.”
“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
“There is no higher value in our society than integrity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist 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.”
“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.”
“Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.”
“The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.”