- Nov 07, 2020
Society Quotes
Society examined from the inside, not just observed.
These quotes treat society as something actively shaped by present decisions, from communication policy to who gets admitted into leadership. For lines on how people choose to live day to day, see Live quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
- American Society
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- Nov 07, 2020