952 private quotes tagged society

“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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“We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.” — K. D. Lang

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“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.” — Gerard Butler

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“My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.” — Samantha Morton

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“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.” — Shailene Woodley

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“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.” — Kofi Annan

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“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.” — K. D. Lang

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“Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.” — Judi Dench

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“The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.” — Tom Shadyac

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“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.” — K. D. Lang

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“We are what make up society.” — Tom Shadyac

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“Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.” — Serj Tankian

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“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.” — George A. Romero

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“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.” — Serj Tankian

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“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.” — Henning Mankell

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“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.” — Barry Commoner

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“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.” — Lee R. Raymond

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“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.” — Alan Paton

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“I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.” — Serj Tankian

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“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.” — Henning Mankell

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“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.” — Stephen Jay Gould

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“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.” — Robertson Davies

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“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.” — Yuri Milner

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“As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.” — Michael Moore

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“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.” — Kenneth Grahame

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