952 private quotes tagged society

“What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.” — Colin Powell

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“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.” — Theodor Adorno

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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.” — Alice Walker

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“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.” — Eric Hoffer

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“Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.” — Ralph Nader

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“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.” — Ben Stein

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“Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“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.” — Erykah Badu

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“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” — Alex Haley

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“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.” — Eric Hoffer

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“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.” — Muhammad Yunus

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“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.” — Washington Irving

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“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.” — Bo Bennett

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“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.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.” — Simone Weil

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“Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.” — Deepak Chopra

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“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.” — Jermaine Jackson

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“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.” — B. F. Skinner

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“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.” — Bayard Rustin

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“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?” — J. K. Rowling

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“A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.” — Stella Adler

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“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.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.” — Pope Paul VI

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“The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.” — Olof Palme

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