Our Society Quotes

• 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.

  John Lennon

  Life, Depression, Running

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  Valerie Solanas

  Community, Society, Units

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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• The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

  Peter Drucker

  Individuality, Society, Resources

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• We are the ones we've been waiting for.

  June Jordan

  Change, Life Changing, Yes We Can

  June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

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• The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, America

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

  Al Roker

  Baby, Anger, Kids

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• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Trust, Freedom

  'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)

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• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Soulmate, Self Esteem

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• Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Party, Believe, Political

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• What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

  Michel Foucault

  Art, House, Experts

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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

  Patch Adams

  Inspiring, Giving, Community

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• Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Compassion, Safety

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• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  Candace Bushnell

  Inspiring, Money, Powerful

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• Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Opportunity, Law, Employment

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• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Michel Foucault

  Art, Facts, Individual

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• Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Creating, Justice

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• Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation:
  youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

  John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

  Success, Society, Youth

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