- Better
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- 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
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society which is liberal democratic cannot have public policy determined upon the basis of who has got the loudest voice - or who can brings things to a halt.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020