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Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
— Michael Ignatieff
Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.
— Idries Shah
I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched.
— Anna L. Davis
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
— Marshall McLuhan
We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation.
— L.G. Durand
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
— Frances O'Grady
Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
— William Graham Sumner
The world is better withoutthem.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.
— Marilyn Monroe
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.
— Lillian B. Rubin
Let's just say that society tells you to be whoever you want to be, but they don't accept you.
— Ronald Gan
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
America's a very traumatized society.
— Alanis Morissette
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
— Tim Jackson
We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.
— Jane McGonigal
A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners
— Winston S. Churchill
One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.
— Nelson Mandela
Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall.
— Abhijit Naskar
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
— Richard J. Foster
Society has no place for active lunatics.
— Snoo Wilson
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine
— Christopher Hitchens
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
— Vladimir Putin
Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
— Paul Sweeney
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
— J.G. Ballard
Ideas have consequences that can transform society.
— Ricardo Salinas Pliego
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
— Nicolas Chamfort
We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.
— Asa Don Brown
She was part wide-eyed wood nymph, part awkward society miss, and - he was beginning to realize - part testy library elf.
— Karen Hawkins
Sang's ass was not so much an ass but a continuation of leg and bone, covered by pockets because society demanded it be covered by pockets.
— Sloane Crosley
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
— Andrew Young
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
— Charles De Secondat
The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.
— Donald Sadoway
Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.
— Christina Baldwin
We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.
— Kenneth L. Woodward
Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.
— Tiffani Thiessen
It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.
— Graham Steele
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
— Tom Robbins
Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
— A.E. Samaan
If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.
— Osamu Dazai
This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.
— Peter Hitchens
Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.
— Tamara Rose Blodgett
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Not all men rape. Some molest and others observe!
— Abhishek Leela Pandey
Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
— Naomi Wolf
And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.
— Chuck Klosterman
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
— Madeleine Albright
Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
— Roger Scruton
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
— Christopher Lasch
The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.
— Alan Dershowitz
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.
— David Baltimore
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
— Neil Armstrong
This gap perpetuates a cycle of injustice in our society that often begins in middle school with suspension practices.
— Phyllis Hunter
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
— Rita Mae Brown
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.
— John F. Kennedy
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
— Daisaku Ikeda
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
— J. William Fulbright
Batman: You can't build a better world by killing criminals--it bankrupts your soul and society's by reinforcing the same cycle of violence.
— Peter J. Tomasi
Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
— Algernon Sidney
Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.
— John McKnight
In this moment, I am a god.
— Marie Lu
