- Civil Society
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so ashamed of who I was. And I also felt like an outcast in gay society as well because I wasn't good-looking enough; my body wasn't good enough.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- Free Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
- Fellow
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020