“Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.”
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“Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.”
“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.”
“Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our 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.”
“We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
“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.”
“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.”
“Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.”
“It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.”
“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.”
“I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.”
“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.”
“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.”
“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.”
“Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.”
“We need proof in our society.”
“I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.”
“Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.”
“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.”
“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.”