Society Quotes - Page 13

• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Opportunity

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• 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.

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Anger, Responsibility

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

  Walter E. Williams

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

  "All it takes is guts". Book by Walter E. Williams, 1987.

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• It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Power, Government

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.217, Soft Skull Press

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

  Russell Kirk

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.274, Regnery Publishing

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• Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
  No sensible capitalist would do that.

  Amory Lovins

  Inspirational, Money, Nature

  "The Blue Economy 3.0: The Marriage of Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creates a New Business Model That Transforms Society". Book by Gunter Pauli, 2017.

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

  Noam Chomsky

  Change, Education, Time

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• Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

  Deborah Meier

  Inspirational, Family, Education

  Deborah Meier (2002). “The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem”, p.38, Beacon Press

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• A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspiring, Civilization, Charity

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

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• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 04, 2014

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• The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

  James Russell Lowell

  Generations, May, Next

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “Books and Libraries: And Other Papers”

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• The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

  William Beveridge

  Money, Freedom, Government

  "Voluntary Action" by William Beveridge, (Ch. 12), 1948.

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• Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

  Ivy Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Truth

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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• The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Black, Occupation

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• If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Humanity

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin

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• Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Life, Change, Differences

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• Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Change, Ideas, Requirements

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.7, Routledge

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• The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.

  Gerda Lerner

  Life, Running, Men

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