| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Gloria Steinem | A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. | 101 |
| Lord Byron | There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. | 101 |
| Michel Foucault | What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. | 101 |
| Noam Chomsky | The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. | 101 |
| Kofi Annan | Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. | 101 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. | 101 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. | 101 |
| Al Sharpton | As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. | 101 |
| Andrew Cuomo | I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. | 101 |
| B. R. Ambedkar | Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. | 101 |
| Bayard Rustin | If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. | 101 |
| Benazir Bhutto | I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society. | 101 |
| Bhumibol Adulyadej | A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. | 101 |
| Colin Farrell | You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form. | 101 |
| David Petraeus | Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard. | 101 |
| Dean Smith | I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society. | 101 |
| Eugene Ionesco | No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. | 101 |
| Gary Johnson | We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable. | 101 |
| Gerard Butler | 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. | 101 |
| Hernan Cortes | The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. | 101 |
| Hugh Kingsmill | Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. | 101 |
| Ian MacKaye | There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are. | 101 |
| Lech Walesa | I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. | 101 |
| Lloyd Kaufman | In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! | 101 |
| Loretta Lynch | Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice. | 101 |
| Lucretia Mott | There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman. | 101 |
| Mother Angelica | Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing. | 101 |
| Muhammad Yunus | To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen. | 101 |
| Nancy Pearcey | If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences. | 101 |
| Natalie Dormer | When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively. | 101 |
| Neil LaBute | 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. | 101 |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. | 101 |
| Orrin Hatch | Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. | 101 |
| Phyllis Schlafly | Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society. | 101 |
| Robert Winston | We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' | 101 |
| Ron Paul | 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. | 101 |
| Ulrich Beck | The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. | 101 |
| Victor Pinchuk | Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. | 101 |
| Victor Ponta | In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources. | 101 |
| William Julius Wilson | During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks. | 101 |
| Zygmunt Bauman | In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. | 101 |
| Abbas Kiarostami | I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political. | 101 |
| Alex Haley | Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. | 101 |
| Anthony Fauci | I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society. | 101 |
| Astro Teller | I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way. | 101 |
| Bobby Jindal | As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language. | 101 |
| Carrie P. Meek | Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. | 101 |
| Charles W. Pickering | A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. | 101 |
| Chili Davis | Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. | 101 |
| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture. | 101 |
| Claudia Rankine | How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life. | 101 |
| Ednita Nazario | I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. | 101 |
| Gary Locke | Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society. | 101 |
| Harry Mathews | I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. | 101 |
| Henry St. John | Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. | 101 |
| Henry Steele Commager | Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. | 101 |
| Irving R. Kaufman | The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. | 101 |
| Ishmael Reed | I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor. | 101 |
| James Hillman | Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society. | 101 |
| John Sculley | In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society. | 101 |
| Joni Eareckson Tada | If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society. | 101 |
| Karrine Steffans | The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in. | 101 |
| Kathleen Troia McFarland | We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives. | 101 |
| Keith O'Brien | Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father. | 101 |
| Kim Basinger | I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd. | 101 |
| Lynn Shelton | For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity. | 101 |
| Martin Parr | My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society. | 101 |
| Neil Strauss | I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. | 101 |
| Nursultan Nazarbayev | For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. | 101 |
| Patrick J. Kennedy | Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society. | 101 |
| Peter Mullan | Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters. | 101 |
| Preston Manning | Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. | 101 |
| Roland Barthes | There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. | 101 |
| Sargent Shriver | If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. | 101 |
| Sun Ra | Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society. | 101 |
| Thom Mayne | The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. | 101 |
| Tim Robbins | I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. | 101 |
| Tom Hollander | Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity. | 101 |
| Trevor Phillips | The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian. | 101 |
| Valerie Solanas | Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. | 101 |
| William T. Vollmann | A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society. | 101 |
| Al Roker | In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. | 101 |
| Alan Paton | To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. | 101 |
| Benjamin Tucker | But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. | 101 |
| Chris Noth | In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life? | 101 |
| Danny Kaye | Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society. | 101 |
| Dennis Hastert | Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law. | 101 |
| John Roberts | People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. | 101 |
| Kenzaburo Oe | However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world. | 101 |
| Kerry Stokes | Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. | 101 |
| Mark Skousen | The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. | 101 |
| Paul Berg | Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. | 101 |
| Peter Kropotkin | 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. | 101 |
| Petter Stordalen | What is good for society is also good for business. | 101 |
| Samantha Morton | You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. | 101 |
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension. | 101 |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot. | 101 |
| Stephen Chbosky | When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me. | 101 |
| Tao Lin | I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. | 101 |
| Tim Holden | The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. | 101 |
| Tipper Gore | The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes. | 101 |
| Wilkie Collins | I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. | 101 |
| Will Eisner | Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. | 101 |
| David Amram | The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. | 101 |
| Denis Villeneuve | If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society. | 101 |
| Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey | We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct. | 101 |
| Elsa Maxwell | A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. | 101 |
| Jason Priestley | Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself. | 101 |
| Linda Sanchez | For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. | 101 |
| Luke Mitchell | At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another. | 101 |
| Shereen El Feki | Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts. | 101 |
| Toshihiko Fukui | The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change. | 101 |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti | A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. | 101 |
| Alan Lightman | We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers. | 101 |
| Andrew Eldritch | I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. | 101 |
| Anwar Sadat | There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. | 101 |
| Bertha von Suttner | The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity. | 101 |
| Bill Hybels | Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. | 101 |
| Chen Guangcheng | How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. | 101 |
| Edmund Leach | Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. | 101 |
| Ernst Fischer | In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. | 101 |
| Jacques Delors | The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. | 101 |
| Mary Hansen | That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things. | 101 |
| Michael Harrington | People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society. | 101 |
| Peter Medawar | Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. | 101 |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton | We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. | 101 |
| Sean Quinn | If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that. | 101 |
| Tim Matheson | For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? | 101 |
| Timothy Thomas Fortune | Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. | 101 |
| Alan Bates | I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. | 101 |
| Andrej Pejic | In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less? | 101 |
| Anna Maria Chavez | Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue. | 101 |
| C. J. Cherryh | The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. | 101 |
| James Spader | Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it. | 101 |
| Louis Althusser | Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. | 101 |
| Matthew Quick | The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves. | 101 |
| Mitchel Resnick | Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to program, even though very few will become professional programmers. | 101 |
| Mo Yan | A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. | 101 |
| Ronnie Chan | It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge. | 101 |
| Sister Souljah | I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance. | 101 |
| Al Seckel | I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' | 101 |
| Duniya Vijay | What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family? | 101 |
| Joseph P. Bradley | Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society. | 101 |
| Richard Li | If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business. | 101 |
| Robert Higgs | We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt. | 101 |
| Ross Lovegrove | Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition. | 101 |
| Seymour Hersh | The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes. | 101 |
| Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud | Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society. | 101 |
| Ahmet Necdet Sezner | Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. | 101 |
| Maurice Druon | Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society. | 101 |
| Max Martini | I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need. | 101 |
| Moza bint Nasser | We believe... that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings... that will enable Qatar to build up its society. You cannot build a healthy society without giving your citizens a sense of ownership. Otherwise, they will not share with you the responsibilities. | 101 |
| Randolph Bourne | Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. | 101 |
| Stephen M. Ross | Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change? | 101 |
| Janet Suzman | But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up. | 101 |
| Mark Poster | Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class. | 101 |
| Matthew Shultz | Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest. | 101 |
| Johannes Rau | But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools. | 101 |
| Joseph A. Schumpeter | Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. | 101 |
| James Connolly | The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. | 101 |
| Elie Wiesel | Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. | 102 |
| Isaac Asimov | It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. | 102 |
| Karl Marx | Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. | 102 |
| Adam Smith | No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. | 102 |
| Angela Davis | We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. | 102 |
| Jiddu Krishnamurti | It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.  | 102 |
| Anthony Bourdain | Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. | 102 |
| Bayard Rustin | 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. | 102 |
| Cesare Beccaria | If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so. | 102 |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. | 102 |
| David Crystal | Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. | 102 |
| David Harsanyi | Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. | 102 |
| Edward Abbey | Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. | 102 |
| Eli Roth | Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. | 102 |
| Graham Norton | Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!' | 102 |
| Grover Norquist | The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. | 102 |
| Guy Kawasaki | If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. | 102 |
| Horace Walpole | Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. | 102 |
| Lauryn Hill | As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society. | 102 |
| Lily Tomlin | The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. | 102 |
| Lupe Fiasco | I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus. | 102 |
| Mahavira | Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same. | 102 |
| Maximilien Robespierre | The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. | 102 |
| Nat Turner | Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. | 102 |
| Olof Palme | The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. | 102 |
| Paul Haggis | I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world. | 102 |
| Pete Townshend | I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' | 102 |
| Peter L. Berger | Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. | 102 |
| Potter Stewart | Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. | 102 |
| Q'orianka Kilcher | I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control. | 102 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks. | 102 |
| Robert Owen | Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. | 102 |
| Roy Lichtenstein | I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. | 102 |
| Sam Harris | As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population. | 102 |
| Timothy Noah | The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. | 102 |
| Tony Hawk | The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, world travelers and successful entrepreneurs. Their hairdos and tattoos are simply part of our culture, even when they raise eyebrows during PTA meetings. | 102 |
| Vincent Nichols | Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent. | 102 |
| Walter Gropius | Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. | 102 |
| Warren Farrell | Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes. | 102 |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. | Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. | 102 |
| Yoshihiko Noda | When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue. | 102 |
| Zachary Quinto | Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country. | 102 |
| Charles Horton Cooley | Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. | 102 |
| Charlotte Rampling | French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. | 102 |
| Evelyn Glennie | The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve. | 102 |
| Frans Lanting | A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different. | 102 |
| Herb Caen | Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. | 102 |
| Kenneth Grahame | Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. | 102 |
| Leonard Mlodinow | Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated. | 102 |
| Louis MacNeice | Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind. | 102 |
| Nancy Friday | I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better. | 102 |
| Pat Brown | Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society. | 102 |
| Pratibha Patil | Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. | 102 |
| Robert Wilson | By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. | 102 |
| Ruben Blades | I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. | 102 |
| Steven Weber | Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. | 102 |
| Alex Steffen | There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it is possible and more practical to talk about rebuilding systems to use much less energy than it is to think about trying to meet greater demands of energy through clean energy alone. | 102 |
| Arne Glimcher | The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. | 102 |
| Barry Bonds | Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. | 102 |
| Blanche Lincoln | We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society. | 102 |
| Brian Lamb | More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed. | 102 |
| Ernst Mayr | In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. | 102 |
| Gary Ackerman | It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber. | 102 |
| Helen Suzman | I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for. | 102 |
| Janis Ian | I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it. | 102 |
| Jeff Lemire | I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s. | 102 |
| Kelly Cutrone | Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion. | 102 |
| Kenny Marchant | I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad. | 102 |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society. | 102 |
| Mark Skousen | Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. | 102 |
| Mary Ellen Mark | Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. | 102 |
| Miriam Makeba | Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. | 102 |
| Peter Hammill | The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. | 102 |
| Peter Kropotkin | America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. | 102 |
| Prince Andrew | The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society. | 102 |
| Saina Nehwal | I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity. | 102 |
| Thaksin Shinawatra | Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena. | 102 |
| Tim Holden | The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. | 102 |
| Agyness Deyn | Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection. | 102 |
| Cindy Gallop | I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women. | 102 |
| Clara Zetkin | The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. | 102 |
| Michelangelo Antonioni | We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean. | 102 |
| Randa Abdel-Fattah | In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. | 102 |
| Richard J. Codey | It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. | 102 |
| Roy Hattersley | The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. | 102 |
| Ted Koppel | Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. | 102 |
| Tim Jackson | In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society. | 102 |
| Asif Ali Zardari | You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war. | 102 |
| Cal Thomas | In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. | 102 |
| David Horowitz | In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. | 102 |
| David Simon | There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. | 102 |
| Jack Kingston | Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. | 102 |
| John Strachan | With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. | 102 |
| Alex Grey | In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. | 102 |
| Devdutt Pattanaik | Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them? | 102 |
| Joseph Murray | Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet. | 102 |
| Terri Apter | Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. | 102 |
| Robert Cecil | Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. | 102 |
| Shukla Bose | Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum. | 102 |
| Jed S. Rakoff | In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work. | 102 |
| John Ralston Saul | Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. | 102 |
| Anas Aremeyaw Anas | Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way. | 102 |
| James Q. Wilson | Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. | 102 |
| Mark Levin | What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. | 102 |
| Marquis De Custine | The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. | 102 |
| Jacques Ellul | Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. | 102 |
| Jimmy Reid | A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. | 102 |
| Jinato Hu | Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. | 102 |
| Jean Chretien | You have to look at history as an evolution of society. | 102 |
| Bruce Springsteen | You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses. | 103 |
| Eminem | I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. | 103 |
| Frederick Douglass | Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. | 103 |
| Charles Bukowski | I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society. | 103 |
| Dennis Prager | Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. | 103 |
| James A. Baldwin | The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. | 103 |
| John Adams | Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. | 103 |
| James A. Baldwin | The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. | 103 |
| Alain de Botton | It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.' | 103 |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. | 103 |
| Art Buchwald | You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. | 103 |
| Barbara Jordan | Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. | 103 |
| Billy Corgan | We've turned into a whining society. | 103 |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. | 103 |
| Conor Oberst | I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all. | 103 |
| David Bohm | 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. | 103 |
| David Harsanyi | You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society. | 103 |
| Emile Durkheim | A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. | 103 |
| Ferdinand Marcos | The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness. | 103 |
| George Soros | I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. | 103 |
| Gerard Butler | It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally. | 103 |
| Germaine Greer | All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. | 103 |
| Harry Connick, Jr. | We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet. | 103 |
| Howard Cosell | The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand. | 103 |
| Howard Zinn | If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. | 103 |
| Irv Kupcinet | What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? | 103 |
| Isabel Allende | Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. | 103 |
| Kevin McCloud | We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. | 103 |
| Kevin Whately | Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society. | 103 |
| Lev Vygotsky | Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well. | 103 |
| Marco Rubio | We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. | 103 |
| Marlo Thomas | 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. | 103 |
| Morrie Schwartz | The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you. | 103 |
| Naomi Wolf | No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. | 103 |
| Oliver Tambo | We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. | 103 |
| Patch Adams | I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile. | 103 |
| Pearl S. Buck | Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. | 103 |
| Philip K. Dick | We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. | 103 |
| Russell Means | I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again. | 103 |
| Sam Kinison | In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. | 103 |
| Thomas Szasz | Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. | 103 |
| Tom Brokaw | It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. | 103 |
| Tom Clancy | The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets. | 103 |
| Tyra Banks | The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women. | 103 |
| Yayoi Kusama | I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. | 103 |
| Alison Gopnik | We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools. | 103 |
| Andrew Young | What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. | 103 |
| C. Wright Mills | Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. | 103 |
| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society. | 103 |
| David Walton | The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me. | 103 |
| Jeff Miller | In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another. | 103 |
| Jessamyn West | Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. | 103 |
| Jon Meacham | If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. | 103 |
| Kamisese Mara | In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order. | 103 |
| Keith O'Brien | Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense. | 103 |
| Martha Plimpton | It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. | 103 |
| Michael Crichton | In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. | 103 |
| Michael Ignatieff | Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. | 103 |
| Philip Guston | Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. | 103 |
| Terry Eagleton | The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. | 103 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. | 103 |
| Thomas Keneally | Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. | 103 |
| Thomas Perez | To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class. | 103 |
| Tim Wise | If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society. | 103 |
| Andrei Sakharov | Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. | 103 |
| Carmen Dell'Orefice | I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women. | 103 |
| Charles E. Wilson | No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. | 103 |
| David Rubenstein | What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.' | 103 |
| Elton Gallegly | Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy. | 103 |
| Gwen Moore | As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that. | 103 |
| Hans-Georg Gadamer | Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. | 103 |
| J. William Fulbright | In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest. | 103 |
| John Boyd Orr | When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. | 103 |
| Mike Fitzpatrick | The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. | 103 |
| Rick Danko | My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project. | 103 |
| Tipper Gore | Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. | 103 |
| Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands | I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society. | 103 |
| Anthony Kennedy | The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. | 103 |
| Edmund Wilson | The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. | 103 |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon | Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. | 103 |
| Liu Xiaobo | Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. | 103 |
| Adam Rickitt | There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. | 103 |
| Ajay Devgan | Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues. | 103 |
| Ali Babacan | We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue. | 103 |
| Andrew Eldritch | I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. | 103 |
| Charlene, Princess of Monaco | I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed! | 103 |
| Gaston Caperton | The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. | 103 |
| Jacob Bronowski | Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. | 103 |
| Joseph Lancaster | Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. | 103 |
| Susan Powter | The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich! | 103 |
| Michael Novak | In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. | 103 |
| Michael Polanyi | Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. | 103 |
| Moshe Katsav | Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. | 103 |
| Judy Collins | For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. | 103 |
| Adam Ferguson | Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. | 103 |
| Mark Hopkins | No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. | 103 |
| Henry Rollins | Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. | 104 |
| Vince Lombardi | Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. | 104 |
| Joe Biden | For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. | 104 |
| Theodor Adorno | No emancipation without that of society. | 104 |
| Cecil Rhodes | Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible. | 104 |
| Cesare Beccaria | The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact. | 104 |
| Emile Durkheim | If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. | 104 |
| Frank Zappa | Music is always a commentary on society. | 104 |
| Guy Laliberte | Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We've forgotten what that childlike experience was like. | 104 |
| Henry Louis Gates | But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. | 104 |
| Kim Gordon | Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that? | 104 |
| Larry Page | My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. | 104 |
| Ludwig von Mises | Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. | 104 |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. | 104 |
| Murray Rothbard | It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. | 104 |
| Roger Ebert | We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. | 104 |
| Rowan Atkinson | But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. | 104 |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. | 104 |
| Warren Farrell | For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles. | 104 |
| Wilma Mankiller | In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. | 104 |
| Yitzhak Shamir | I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. | 104 |
| Alan Kay | There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. | 104 |
| Alfred Austin | Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. | 104 |
| Carroll Quigley | There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. | 104 |
| Damien Rice | I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society. | 104 |
| Donella Meadows | I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes. | 104 |
| Garrett Hardin | Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. | 104 |
| Georges Bernanos | The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. | 104 |
| Ha-Joon Chang | By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society. | 104 |
| Nancy Friday | Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. | 104 |
| Neil Kinnock | In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. | 104 |
| Phil Ochs | When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right. | 104 |
| Robert W. Service | I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors. | 104 |
| Tim Wise | Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments. | 104 |
| William Kingdon Clifford | The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. | 104 |
| Benjamin Tucker | I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. | 104 |
| Bill Vaughan | Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. | 104 |
| Charles Hodge | The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. | 104 |
| Edward Everett | In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. | 104 |
| Emily Levine | Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. | 104 |
| Janis Ian | I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact. | 104 |
| Martin Yan | Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back. | 104 |
| Boris Spassky | The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. | 104 |
| Boyd Rice | I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. | 104 |
| Elijah Wood | I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. | 104 |
| Jean-Francois Lyotard | What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. | 104 |
| John Key | I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. | 104 |
| Robert Shea | Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society? | 104 |
| Sebastiao Salgado | We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community. | 104 |
| Steve Allen | In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. | 104 |
| Cokie Roberts | Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. | 104 |
| John Cameron | Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. | 104 |
| Jonathan Stroud | We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told. | 104 |
| Matthew Quick | I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly. | 104 |
| Johann Most | Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. | 104 |
| Juan Goytisolo | In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony. | 104 |
| Jacques Verges | It is good for society to have this introspection. | 104 |
| Alexander Hamilton | I think the first duty of society is justice. | 105 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. | 105 |
| Michel Foucault | Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. | 105 |
| Charles R. Swindoll | There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. | 105 |
| John Adams | Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. | 105 |
| Margaret Mead | We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. | 105 |
| Mike Tyson | I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. | 105 |
| Alice Paul | It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. | 105 |
| Andy Serkis | I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it. | 105 |
| Beck | As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. | 105 |
| bell hooks | The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. | 105 |
| Christopher Lasch | The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. | 105 |
| David Cameron | 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. | 105 |
| Henry Paulson | India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth. | 105 |
| Ibrahim Rugova | My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA. | 105 |
| Jonathan Kozol | If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. | 105 |
| Julia Roberts | 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. | 105 |
| Kerry Washington | I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society. | 105 |
| Larry Page | If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. | 105 |
| Lois Lowry | When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. | 105 |
| Najib Razak | Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society. | 105 |
| Norman Douglas | There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. | 105 |
| Paulo Freire | Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society. | 105 |
| Rand Paul | I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. | 105 |
| Salman Rushdie | The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. | 105 |
| Shirley Chisholm | Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. | 105 |
| Timothy Leary | Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. | 105 |
| William H. Seward | The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. | 105 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. | 105 |
| William Wilberforce | I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician. | 105 |
| Yoko Ono | I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.' | 105 |
| Edward Sapir | Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. | 105 |
| Jacqueline Novogratz | When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. | 105 |
| Joan Collins | We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates. | 105 |
| Kat Graham | There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy. | 105 |
| Laura Esquivel | As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society. | 105 |
| Lucy Powell | At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. | 105 |
| Martin Jacques | If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it. | 105 |
| Pratibha Patil | Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity. | 105 |
| Tim Robbins | I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large. | 105 |
| Adora Svitak | I think women should be more independent. In society, we're portrayed as people who simply wear make-up and sit around. We need a Princess Charming - a woman who rescues her man and slays the dragon instead of the other way round. | 105 |
| Jan Peter Balkenende | Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. | 105 |
| Kjell Magne Bondevik | A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. | 105 |
| Matthew Vaughn | I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in. | 105 |
| Max Cannon | People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. | 105 |
| Anita Sarkeesian | Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy. | 105 |
| Bob Filner | We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished. | 105 |
| Pervez Musharraf | Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. | 105 |
| Jack Kingston | Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. | 105 |
| John Charles Polanyi | Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. | 105 |
| Raven-Symone | I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful. | 105 |
| Jude Law | I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself. | 105 |
| A. Whitney Brown | I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. | 105 |
| John Ralston Saul | Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. | 105 |
| Carl Sagan | We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. | 106 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. | 106 |
| Michel Foucault | Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. | 106 |
| Pope John Paul II | The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. | 106 |
| Joe Biden | No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change. | 106 |
| Alvin Toffler | One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. | 106 |
| Anne Lamott | We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. | 106 |
| Bayard Rustin | If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom. | 106 |
| Betty Friedan | It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. | 106 |
| Charles Kuralt | 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. | 106 |
| David Bohm | This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. | 106 |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. | 106 |
| Emile Durkheim | The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances. | 106 |
| Frances Wright | However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. | 106 |
| Harold Bloom | But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. | 106 |
| Henrik Ibsen | Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. | 106 |
| Iggy Pop | The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.' | 106 |
| Jack Kevorkian | 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. | 106 |
| James Russell Lowell | Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. | 106 |
| Joe Rogan | No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory. | 106 |
| Os Guinness | The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. | 106 |
| Paul Sweeney | How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? | 106 |
| Richard Rogers | Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society. | 106 |
| Talcott Parsons | The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. | 106 |
| Thomas Mann | It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. | 106 |
| William Blackstone | Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. | 106 |
| Abbie Hoffman | The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. | 106 |
| Abdolkarim Soroush | We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. | 106 |
| Alexa Von Tobel | LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and, ultimately, the promotion of self-sufficient and financially aware women. | 106 |
| Blake Mycoskie | It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy. | 106 |
| Brendan Myers | Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society. | 106 |
| Joni Eareckson Tada | The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged. | 106 |
| Jose Mourinho | The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society. | 106 |
| Kenneth L. Pike | Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. | 106 |
| Kenzo Tange | Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. | 106 |
| Michael Fassbender | You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from. | 106 |
| Michael Leunig | The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. | 106 |
| Mohamed ElBaradei | Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised. | 106 |
| Tariq Ramadan | Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices. | 106 |
| Aaron Koblin | I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in. | 106 |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe. | 106 |
| Solon | Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. | 106 |
| James Howard Kunstler | History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live! | 106 |
| Lawrence G. Lovasik | The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. | 106 |
| John T. Flynn | All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first. | 106 |
| August Strindberg | Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. | 106 |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide | We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights. | 106 |
| John Cheever | All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. | 106 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. | 107 |
| Bob Marley | If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now. | 107 |
| Pope Francis | If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society. | 107 |
| Camille Paglia | I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. | 107 |
| Charles Kuralt | You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. | 107 |
| Daniel Dennett | In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. | 107 |
| Dean Smith | I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one. | 107 |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. | 107 |
| Herbert Read | It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. | 107 |
| Henry Paulson | In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics. | 107 |
| Herbert Spencer | Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. | 107 |
| Leland Stanford | I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. | 107 |
| Michael Moore | If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society. | 107 |
| Muhammad Yunus | By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society. | 107 |
| Neale Donald Walsch | Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other. | 107 |
| Pope John XXIII | The family is the first essential cell of human society. | 107 |
| Rollo May | The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. | 107 |
| Salman Rushdie | Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. | 107 |
| Thor Heyerdahl | It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. | 107 |
| Tim Tebow | What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people. | 107 |
| Victoria Woodhull | Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. | 107 |
| Zygmunt Bauman | The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off. | 107 |
| A. J. Liebling | The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. | 107 |
| Harriet Martineau | If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. | 107 |
| Janet Jackson | Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society. | 107 |
| Jeff Miller | We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. | 107 |
| John Marshall | I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced. | 107 |
| Kenzo Tange | In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society. | 107 |
| Richard Lamm | 'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. | 107 |
| Whittaker Chambers | At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. | 107 |
| Carter Burwell | Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. | 107 |
| Kit Williams | The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. | 107 |
| Margaret Chan | The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset. | 107 |
| Stephen Harper | Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. | 107 |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti | There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. | 107 |
| Maggie Gallagher | Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. | 107 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. | 108 |
| Karl Marx | In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. | 108 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. | 108 |
| Dave Barry | The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. | 108 |
| Marilyn Manson | We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. | 108 |
| Ani DiFranco | Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. | 108 |
| Anna Wintour | I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects. | 108 |
| Arlen Specter | There is no higher value in our society than integrity. | 108 |
| Betty Friedan | A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. | 108 |
| Dean Smith | Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. | 108 |
| Emma Goldman | The most violent element in society is ignorance. | 108 |
| George Herbert Mead | Society is unity in diversity. | 108 |
| George Will | A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. | 108 |
| Jerry Falwell | AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. | 108 |
| K. D. Lang | 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. | 108 |
| Larry Page | I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world. | 108 |
| Lord Acton | 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. | 108 |
| Marina Abramovic | The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. | 108 |
| Rose George | Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society? | 108 |
| Sebastian Junger | I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived. | 108 |
| Simon Mainwaring | We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society. | 108 |
| Ann Richards | We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. | 108 |
| Bill Toomey | The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years. | 108 |
| Edward Bond | All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism. | 108 |
| Karl A. Menninger | What's done to children, they will do to society. | 108 |
| Mila Kunis | Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society. | 108 |
| Robert Bork | A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. | 108 |
| Srikumar Rao | Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. | 108 |
| Kjell Magne Bondevik | We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world. | 108 |
| Rachel Bilson | I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture. | 108 |
| Anna Lindh | Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. | 108 |
| Albert Camus | Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. | 109 |
| James Madison | A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. | 109 |
| Alanis Morissette | I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop. | 109 |
| Anthony Hopkins | I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short. | 109 |
| Arnold J. Toynbee | The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. | 109 |
| Ben Horowitz | Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.' | 109 |
| Bertolt Brecht | Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. | 109 |
| Damien Hirst | I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. | 109 |
| Evgeny Morozov | A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. | 109 |
| Felix Adler | The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. | 109 |
| Henrik Ibsen | The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. | 109 |
| Herbert Read | Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. | 109 |
| Kevin Smith | The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers. | 109 |
| Lee Kuan Yew | The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people. | 109 |
| Robert Reich | A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. | 109 |
| Tom Hiddleston | In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. | 109 |
| Wendell Willkie | When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. | 109 |
| Alison Gopnik | Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' | 109 |
| John W. Gardner | Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. | 109 |
| Matt Taibbi | The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser? | 109 |
| Mike Nichols | American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast. | 109 |
| R. D. Laing | We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. | 109 |
| Shelby Foote | When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. | 109 |
| Sonam Kapoor | Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands. | 109 |
| Thomas Browne | Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. | 109 |
| Aimee Mullins | It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable. | 109 |
| Christian Lous Lange | Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations. | 109 |
| John Kasich | Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. | 109 |
| Mark Skousen | Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last. | 109 |
| Robert Frost | If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. | 110 |
| Scarlett Johansson | These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society. | 110 |
| B. R. Ambedkar | A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. | 110 |
| Ban Ki-moon | By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society. | 110 |
| Condoleezza Rice | But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. | 110 |
| Dan Rather | Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it. | 110 |
| Emily Bronte | 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. | 110 |
| Ian MacKaye | I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. | 110 |
| Jessica Simpson | It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe. | 110 |
| John Forbes Nash, Jr. | To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. | 110 |
| John Madden | The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. | 110 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. | 110 |
| Shel Silverstein | He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. | 110 |
| Thomas Friedman | America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage. | 110 |
| Thomas Szasz | Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. | 110 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. | 110 |
| Jeb Bush | But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives. | 110 |
| John W. Gardner | The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. | 110 |
| Roger Goodell | Too much of our society looks for people to fail. | 110 |
| J. William Fulbright | When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. | 110 |
| James Anthony Froude | The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. | 110 |
| Bruce Springsteen | I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless. | 111 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good. | 111 |
| Ai Weiwei | To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. | 111 |
| Aneurin Bevan | Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. | 111 |
| Brendan Behan | I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. | 111 |
| Cher | Women are the real architects of society. | 111 |
| Clayton Christensen | I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt. | 111 |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. | 111 |
| Harry Browne | Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. | 111 |
| Ingrid Newkirk | Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. | 111 |
| Morihei Ueshiba | Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love. | 111 |
| Myles Munroe | We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute. | 111 |
| Paulo Freire | It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. | 111 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ! | 111 |
| Seth Shostak | Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts. | 111 |
| Shigeru Miyamoto | Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can. | 111 |
| Susan Cain | A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology. | 111 |
| Tony Benn | We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. | 111 |
| William J. Clinton | 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. | 111 |
| Charles de Secondat | Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. | 111 |
| Jeb Bush | I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically. | 111 |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. | 111 |
| Sonam Kapoor | Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For me, a woman of worth is someone who has self -espect, who believes that she can change things in society. | 111 |
| Stefano Gabbana | Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur. | 111 |
| Jung Chang | What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. | 111 |
| Nelson Mandela | People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society. | 112 |
| Karl Marx | Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. | 112 |
| Pope John Paul II | When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. | 112 |
| Thomas Sowell | Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. | 112 |
| Tupac Shakur | I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. | 112 |
| Marshall McLuhan | Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. | 112 |
| Ban Ki-moon | Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. | 112 |
| Emile M. Cioran | Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. | 112 |
| Geoff Mulgan | All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. | 112 |
| Harry Browne | A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. | 112 |
| Jerry Garcia | If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. | 112 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. | 112 |
| Walter Lippmann | What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. | 112 |
| Dayananda Saraswati | To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself. | 112 |
| J. B. Priestley | We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. | 112 |
| Jonathan Sacks | Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. | 112 |
| Ray Comfort | This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God. | 112 |
| John F. Kennedy | Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. | 113 |
| Gloria Steinem | If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. | 113 |
| W. H. Auden | The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. | 113 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. | 113 |
| Theodor Adorno | He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. | 113 |
| bell hooks | To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society. | 113 |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity. | 113 |
| Erich Fromm | Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? | 113 |
| Ernestine Rose | Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' | 113 |
| Ibrahim Babangida | A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. | 113 |
| Mario Batali | Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support. | 113 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing. | 113 |
| Neil Armstrong | In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. | 113 |
| Robert Reich | Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. | 113 |
| Serj Tankian | I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. | 113 |
| William Graham Sumner | It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. | 113 |
| William Ralph Inge | A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. | 113 |
| Zakk Wylde | That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between. | 113 |
| Jeb Bush | You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel or the one that worries about making sure that the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody's lunch. | 113 |
| Shailene Woodley | 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. | 113 |
| Victor Hugo | Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. | 114 |
| Margaret Atwood | The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. | 114 |
| Bhumibol Adulyadej | The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. | 114 |
| Billie Jean King | Sports are a microcosm of society. | 114 |
| Cornel West | We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. | 114 |
| Geoff Mulgan | So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding. | 114 |
| Ian Somerhalder | I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats. | 114 |
| Jean de la Bruyere | The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. | 114 |
| Lawrence M. Krauss | We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology. | 114 |
| Lee Iacocca | In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. | 114 |
| Michael Moore | A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us. | 114 |
| Myles Munroe | The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. | 114 |
| Patch Adams | If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist. | 114 |
| Pico Iyer | The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means. | 114 |
| Thalia | You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino. | 114 |
| Zaha Hadid | Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. | 114 |
| Alan Moore | If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in. | 114 |
| Gary Hamel | The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. | 114 |
| Jonathan Sacks | In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. | 114 |
| Rick Santorum | Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. | 114 |
| Bertrand Russell | The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. | 115 |
| Cesar Chavez | Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex. | 115 |
| Vince Lombardi | People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. | 115 |
| Vladimir Lenin | Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. | 115 |
| Alice Cooper | You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is. | 115 |
| Anne Lamott | I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. | 115 |
| Bill O'Reilly | The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp. | 115 |
| Deepika Padukone | I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else. | 115 |
| George Soros | Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. | 115 |
| Henrik Ibsen | I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! | 115 |
| Henry Van Dyke | 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. | 115 |
| Jerry Garcia | But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you. | 115 |
| Leon Trotsky | The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. | 115 |
| Peter Diamandis | My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. | 115 |
| Robert Orben | Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. | 115 |
| Stella Young | I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses. | 115 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. | 115 |
| William Ellery Channing | No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. | 115 |
| Amitabh Bachchan | You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films. | 115 |
| Andrew Weil | My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. | 115 |
| J. Michael Straczynski | The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. | 115 |
| Jenny McCarthy | What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism. | 115 |
| Jeremy Lin | I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path. | 115 |
| Johan Cruyff | My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society. | 115 |
| Sasha Grey | We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough. | 115 |
| John Locke | The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. | 116 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. | 116 |
| Kofi Annan | 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. | 116 |
| Angela Davis | To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. | 116 |
| David Icke | Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism. | 116 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. | 116 |
| Tom Stoppard | It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. | 116 |
| Ai Weiwei | Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. | 116 |
| Michio Kaku | Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog and who's in the middle. And type-three consciousness is simulating the future. And type-three consciousness, only humans have this ability to see far into the future. | 116 |
| Naomi Wolf | We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society. | 116 |
| Peter Singer | I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it. | 116 |
| Pope Paul VI | Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. | 116 |
| Raymond Chandler | It is not a fragrant world. | 116 |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? | 116 |
| Virginia Postrel | Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future. | 116 |
| Yehuda Berg | It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity. | 116 |
| J. C. Watts | I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. | 116 |
| Jenny McCarthy | Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society. | 116 |
| Judith Martin | When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. | 116 |
| Thomas Jefferson | I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. | 117 |
| Erma Bombeck | Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. | 117 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. | 117 |
| Phil McGraw | The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. | 117 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. | 117 |
| Ice Cube | I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. | 117 |
| B. F. Skinner | If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. | 117 |
| Tom Stoppard | What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance? | 117 |
| Jules Verne | Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! | 117 |
| Marco Rubio | We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. | 117 |
| Ray Charles | I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. | 117 |
| Ron Paul | I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. | 117 |
| Theodor Herzl | The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned. | 117 |
| Baruch Spinoza | To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. | 118 |
| Thomas Sowell | Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. | 118 |
| Dennis Prager | 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. | 118 |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society. | 118 |
| John Lydon | Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative. | 118 |
| Erykah Badu | 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. | 118 |
| Henrik Ibsen | The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. | 118 |
| Ken Kesey | People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in. | 118 |
| Ralph Nader | A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. | 118 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society. | 118 |
| Zaha Hadid | Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. | 118 |
| Ronald Reagan | We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. | 119 |
| Harry S Truman | Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. | 119 |
| Kofi Annan | Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. | 119 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. | 119 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. | 119 |
| Helen Mirren | I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry. | 119 |
| Joseph Smith, Jr. | What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands. | 119 |
| Raymond Chandler | Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. | 119 |
| Rush Limbaugh | Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. | 119 |
| Steven Pinker | There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal. | 119 |
| Stokely Carmichael | Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. | 119 |
| William S. Burroughs | After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. | 119 |
| Yoko Ono | This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. | 119 |
| Ziggy Marley | Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted. | 119 |
| James Buchan | In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. | 119 |
| Paulo Coelho | All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. | 120 |
| Robert Frost | A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. | 120 |
| Robert Kennedy | Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. | 120 |
| Audre Lorde | But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. | 120 |
| Gore Vidal | What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. | 120 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. | 120 |
| Barbara Jordan | We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. | 120 |
| Cate Blanchett | I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.' | 120 |
| Dorothy Day | Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. | 120 |
| Sam Harris | One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not. | 120 |
| David Hume | This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. | 121 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. | 121 |
| Samuel Johnson | Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. | 121 |
| B. B. King | When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me. | 121 |
| Ban Ki-moon | One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things. | 121 |
| Friedrich Schiller | In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. | 121 |
| Michael Bloomberg | 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. | 121 |
| Paul Watson | I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. | 121 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. | 121 |
| Tom Peters | Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at. | 121 |
| Danica McKellar | 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. | 121 |
| Bill Vaughan | Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. | 121 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. | 122 |
| Princess Diana | Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. | 122 |
| Salvador Dali | In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. | 122 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit. | 122 |
| Brian Tracy | Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. | 122 |
| Emma Goldman | The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. | 122 |
| John Burroughs | Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. | 122 |
| Michio Kaku | If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed. | 122 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. | 123 |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky | Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume. | 123 |
| Ani DiFranco | Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. | 123 |
| Charles B. Rangel | I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. | 123 |
| Ludwig von Mises | Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. | 123 |
| Umberto Eco | When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick. | 123 |
| John Irving | I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have. | 123 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. | 124 |
| Ayn Rand | Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. | 124 |
| Isaac Asimov | The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. | 124 |
| B. F. Skinner | Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. | 124 |
| John Adams | The happiness of society is the end of government. | 124 |
| David Suzuki | We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous. | 124 |
| Erich Fromm | The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. | 124 |
| Martha Beck | Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. | 124 |
| Ayn Rand | Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. | 125 |
| John Lennon | Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. | 125 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | 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. | 125 |
| B. R. Ambedkar | An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared. | 125 |
| Daniel Webster | The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. | 125 |
| Marina Abramovic | The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle. | 125 |
| John Lennon | My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. | 126 |
| David Cameron | 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. | 126 |
| Henry Adams | American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. | 126 |
| Jackie Chan | Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society. | 126 |
| Jean de la Bruyere | The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. | 126 |
| Erma Bombeck | I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. | 201 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. | 201 |
| Karl Marx | The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. | 201 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. | 201 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | 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. | 201 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. | 201 |
| B. R. Ambedkar | Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. | 201 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society. | 201 |
| Hugh Hefner | If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. | 201 |
| Madeleine Albright | The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom. | 201 |
| Marianne Williamson | In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating. | 201 |
| Mignon McLaughlin | Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. | 201 |
| Billy Graham | Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. | 202 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. | 202 |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. | 202 |
| Tom Hiddleston | Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. | 202 |
| Clint Eastwood | Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. | 203 |
| Ben Carson | There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society. | 203 |
| Theodor Adorno | An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. | 203 |
| Alfred Adler | The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. | 203 |
| Carl Sandburg | When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. | 203 |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | Society lives by faith, and develops by science. | 203 |
| Paul Ryan | Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups. | 203 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. | 203 |
| Russell Baker | Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. | 203 |
| Hillary Clinton | I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge. | 204 |
| Robert Frost | The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. | 204 |
| Salvador Dali | Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. | 204 |
| James A. Baldwin | The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. | 204 |
| Mao Zedong | Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. | 204 |
| Jack Canfield | I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.' | 204 |
| John F. Kennedy | If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. | 205 |
| George Orwell | Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. | 205 |
| John Locke | To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. | 205 |
| John Stuart Mill | The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. | 205 |
| Thomas Paine | Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. | 205 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on. | 205 |
| Carl Sandburg | In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. | 206 |
| Mason Cooley | Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. | 206 |
| Ayn Rand | Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. | 207 |
| Pope John Paul II | Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. | 207 |
| Joyce Meyer | As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. | 207 |
| Lauryn Hill | When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family. | 207 |
| Edmund Burke | Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. | 208 |
| Vladimir Putin | We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. | 208 |
| Carine Roitfeld | Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society. | 208 |
| Honore de Balzac | Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. | 208 |
| Elie Wiesel | In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody. | 210 |
| Isaac Asimov | 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. | 210 |
| John Wooden | I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. | 210 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. | 210 |
| Pope Francis | We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. | 210 |
| Milton Friedman | 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? | 210 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. | 210 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. | 211 |
| Robert Frost | Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. | 211 |
| John Updike | 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. | 211 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. | 212 |
| Ben Carson | We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society. | 212 |
| Nelson Mandela | I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. | 213 |
| Bo Bennett | 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. | 213 |
| E. O. Wilson | Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. | 214 |
| John Ruskin | No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. | 215 |
| Marco Rubio | This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country. | 216 |
| John F. Kennedy | If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. | 217 |
| Christopher Hitchens | 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. | 217 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. | 217 |
| Bryant H. McGill | American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. | 217 |
| Honore de Balzac | Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. | 218 |
| Yoko Ono | The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities. | 218 |
| Karl Marx | The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. | 219 |
| Orson Welles | The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. | 219 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. | 220 |
| Noam Chomsky | In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. | 221 |
| Karl Marx | In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. | 222 |
| Deepak Chopra | New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. | 223 |
| Terry Pratchett | The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? | 223 |
| Vladimir Putin | At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism. | 223 |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. | 223 |
| Mike Tyson | 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. | 223 |
| Jim Rohn | Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. | 224 |
| Maya Angelou | The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. | 226 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded. | 226 |
| Deepak Chopra | Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively. | 301 |
| Edmund Burke | Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. | 301 |
| John Lennon | The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? | 301 |
| Albert Einstein | All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. | 302 |
| Martha Beck | Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. | 302 |
| Noam Chomsky | Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history. | 304 |
| Mark Twain | Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. | 305 |
| Margaret Thatcher | There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. | 305 |
| Douglas Coupland | I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? | 305 |
| John F. Kennedy | The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. | 306 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. | 306 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. | 306 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. | 307 |
| Nelson Mandela | There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. | 308 |
| Thomas Paine | Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. | 308 |
| Warren Buffett | The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. | 308 |
| Alice Walker | The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. | 310 |
| Sigmund Freud | Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. | 312 |
| Nelson Mandela | There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. | 317 |
| Albert Camus | As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. | 318 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. | 320 |
| Deepak Chopra | Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. | 321 |
| Oscar Wilde | Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. | 322 |
| Malcolm X | America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. | 322 |
| Noam Chomsky | Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. | 324 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. | 324 |
| Noam Chomsky | In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. | 325 |
| Dalai Lama | My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential. | 401 |
| Nelson Mandela | I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. | 401 |
| Lord Byron | Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. | 402 |
| Marianne Williamson | We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. | 402 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. | 403 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. | 407 |
| Henry David Thoreau | As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. | 408 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. | 418 |
| Henry David Thoreau | I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. | 419 |
| Zig Ziglar | If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. | 422 |
| Victor Hugo | Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. | 425 |
| Joel Osteen | I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important. | 505 |
| George Bernard Shaw | If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself. | 507 |
| Marilyn Monroe | I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners. | 508 |
| Oscar Wilde | I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. | 509 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. | 509 |
| Albert Camus | To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. | 513 |
| Aristotle | He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. | 514 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. | 520 |
| Oscar Wilde | Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. | 524 |
| Mark Twain | The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. | 602 |
| Albert Camus | The society based on production is only productive, not creative. | 603 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. | 606 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. | 616 |
| Oscar Wilde | If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. | 618 |
| Winston Churchill | A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure. | 626 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. | 916 |
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