Society Quotes - Page 11

• We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

  Angela Davis

  Inspiring, African American, Mind

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• No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Humanity, Victim

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.427, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  Irv Kupcinet

  Alive, God Is Dead

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• If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Philosophical, Giving, United States

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  Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

  John Adams

  Leadership, Character, Persistence

  "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Historical, Perception, Doe

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2013). “The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, p.97, The New Press

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• There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

  Eric Hoffer

  Opposites, Way, Exaggerating

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

  Ruben Blades

  Education, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV". Bangor Daily News, February 18, 1993.

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Mean, Good Person, Goodness

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• Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

  Alfred Austin

  Mistake, Garden, Complexity

  Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”

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• 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.

  Brendan Behan

  Summer, Beer, Winter

  "Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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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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• Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Groups, Firsts

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• Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Anger, Order

  Charles Horton Cooley (2015). “Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters”, p.61, Transaction Publishers

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• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  Abba Eban

  Funny, Sarcastic, War

  Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

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• Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Opposites, Mutation

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• Children do not constitute anyone's property:
  they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society.
  They belong only to their own future freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Children, Parent, Property

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  We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

  Hillary Clinton

  Anger, Thinking, Politics

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• 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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• The happiness of society is the end of government.

  John Adams

  Happiness, Government, Presidential

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Political, Rich Poor, Matter

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5807, e-artnow

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