952 private quotes tagged society

“I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.” — Danica McKellar

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“I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.” — Marlo Thomas

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“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.” — David Bohm

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“We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.” — Brit Hume

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“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.” — Minoru Yamasaki

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“Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.” — Phyllis Schlafly

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“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.” — Emma Goldman

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“Women are the real architects of society.” — Cher

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“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.” — Joe Biden

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“The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.” — Clint Eastwood

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“It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.” — Bhumibol Adulyadej

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“The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.” — Robert W. Service

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“Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.” — Charles Kuralt

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“Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.” — Mike Tyson

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“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.” — Isaac Asimov

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“In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.” — Carroll O'Connor

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“Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?” — Milton Friedman

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“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.” — Ron Paul

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