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"The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law."
Robert Kennedy"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
Miriam Makeba"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."
Garrett Hardin"A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own."
Reuven Rivlin"To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen."
Muhammad Yunus"As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here."
Kersti Kaljulaid"Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like."
David Crystal"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
James Baldwin"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings."
Robert Patterson"Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances."
Margo MacDonald"My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that."
Larry Page"If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow."
Jon Meacham"Elon Musk is worried about AI apocalypse, but I am worried about people losing their jobs. The society will have to adapt to a situation where people learn throughout their lives depending on the skills needed in the marketplace."
Andrew Ng"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."
Henry St. John"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."
Robert Kennedy"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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
Angela Davis"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."
Eminem"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."
Orrin Hatch"Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas."
Reza Aslan"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."
Tom Wolfe"Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet."
Joseph Murray"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
Adlai Stevenson II"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"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"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
Ronald Reagan"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
Nelson Mandela"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
C. Wright Mills"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gandhi"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
Hunter S. Thompson"Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society."
Kapil Dev"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
Alex Haley"A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument."
Salman Rushdie"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
Bayard Rustin"For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community."
Joe Biden"Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis."
Michael Ignatieff"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jiddu Krishnamurti"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Lily Tomlin"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
Emma Goldman"Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God."
Billy Graham"I think the first duty of society is justice."
Alexander Hamilton"Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized. -Ban Ki"
moon"Deep-learning will transform every single industry. Healthcare and transportation will be transformed by deep-learning. I want to live in an AI-powered society. When anyone goes to see a doctor, I want AI to help that doctor provide higher quality and lower cost medical service. I want every five-year-old to have a personalised tutor."
Andrew Ng"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
Robertson Davies"Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society."
Isabella Lovin"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
Edward Abbey"As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population."
Sam Harris"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
William Kingdon Clifford"Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it."
Jeremy Irons"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Carl Sagan"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
Kofi Annan"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
Lord Byron"Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense."
Theodor W. Adorno"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society."
Janet Jackson"The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people."
Kailash Satyarthi"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
Aristotle"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
Barbara Jordan"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
Orson Welles"I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible."
Boyd Rice"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
Charles Horton Cooley"The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering."
J. Michael Straczynski"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
Jerry Falwell"If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end."
Bayard Rustin"Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything."
B. J. Armstrong"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."
B. R. Ambedkar"We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity."
Marco Rubio"Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated."
Eli Roth"No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?"
Cesare Beccaria"Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society."
Frank Dillane"I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold."
Fabrice Grinda"Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone."
Bernard Werber"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."
Timothy Leary"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society."
Sonia Sotomayor"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."
Cal Thomas"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
Kent Conrad"Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature."
Dennis Prager"Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society."
Lawrence Kohlberg"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."
Peter Medawar"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
Frederick Douglass"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."
Max Cannon"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
Montesquieu"We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society."
Austin Aries"I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry."
Helen Mirren"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."
Gloria Steinem"I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society. -Alexandria Ocasio"
Cortez"In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy."
David Horowitz"In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity."
Maajid Nawaz"There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society. -Bong Joon"
ho"No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory."
Joe Rogan"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."
A. Bartlett Giamatti"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
Brian Tracy"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
John Locke"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
B. F. Skinner"Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units."
Valerie Solanas"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
A. J. Liebling"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Robert Frost"Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others."
Barry Bonds"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."
Michel Foucault"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov"Women are the real architects of society."
Cher"Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy."
Liu Xiaobo"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
Art Buchwald"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
John W. Gardner"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity."
Ralph Nader"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
Emily Bronte"Sports are a microcosm of society."
Billie Jean King"I think it's important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself."
Ricky Gervais"I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity."
Saina Nehwal"I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care."
Camille Paglia"The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction."
Tim Holden"The great hope of society is in individual character."
William Ellery Channing"Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative."
John Lydon"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."
Felix Frankfurter"We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates."
Joan Collins"It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction."
Noam Chomsky"Work hard, be honest, help people, never give up, love your fellow man and woman, give back to society, and don't ever discriminate."
Jesse White"Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society."
Dave Rubin"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
Thomas Jefferson"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge."
Ronnie Chan"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."
Elie Wiesel"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."
Friedrich August von Hayek"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."
Eugene Ionesco"In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized."
Alex Grey"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."
John F. Kennedy"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families."
Margaret Thatcher"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."
Paulo Coelho"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."
Thomas Sowell"The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth."
Anthony Kennedy"If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society."
Sargent Shriver"We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights. -Jean"
Bertrand Aristide"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
John Major"Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country."
Salman Rushdie"Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?"
Stephen M. Ross"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
Edward Bond"If I can't give back to the society, then this isn't a good life I am leading."
Sonu Sood"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."
Bill Gates"In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics."
Henry Paulson"Cinema is a reflection of its own society."
Shohreh Aghdashloo"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
Emil Cioran"Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community."
Jamie Dimon"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
Alexis de Tocqueville"What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it."
Mark Levin"The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion."
Murray Rothbard"Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage."
Mason Cooley"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
Daniel Webster"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
Carl Sandburg"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole."
Baruch Spinoza"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."
Ernst Fischer"There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy."
Kat Graham"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."
Noam Chomsky"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable."
Simone de Beauvoir"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
Albert Einstein"We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It's not an 'Internet movement.'"
Alicia Garza"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
Peter Kropotkin"If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it."
Hugh Hefner"Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society."
Mo Ibrahim"The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country."
David Cameron"If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom."
Bayard Rustin"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
John Stuart Mill"I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political."
Abbas Kiarostami"It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society."
Nikki Sixx"Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily."
Harry Browne"A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology."
Robert Trout"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave."
James Connolly"No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change."
Joe Biden"A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future."
Owen Jones"The ancient Greek philosophers were blonde and blue-eyed and, even then, talked about how their race was mixed with others and how this affected their society negatively. When there were no more natural blondes and no more blue eyes in Greece, they incidentally stopped producing great philosophers."
Varg Vikernes"Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in."
Jeff Bridges"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously."
Jerry Garcia"Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society."
Thomas Sowell"I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses."
Stella Young"The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies."
Joe Biden"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."
Robert Cecil"Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free."
Mario Vargas Llosa"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
Jacob Bronowski"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."
Zig Ziglar"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
James Madison"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"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes."
Guy Kawasaki"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
Rollo May"I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us."
Bad Bunny"The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages."
Ben Shapiro"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
Adam Smith"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots."
Erich Fromm"Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself. Find your purpose. You are unique, and that makes you great. I pursued my dreams. You can do it, too."
Karen Civil"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society."
George Soros"We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs."
Mohammad bin Salman"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."
Carter Burwell"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive."
Victor Hugo"Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it."
Kapil Sibal"Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture."
Alejandro Jodorowsky"We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society."
Justin Trudeau"But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude."
Harold Bloom"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."
Marilyn Manson"The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves."
Matthew Quick"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Mark Twain"By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in."
Ron Conway"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."
Pope John Paul II"I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children."
Ednita Nazario"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
Princess Diana"The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized."
Mary Wollstonecraft"Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society."
Gary Locke"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
Nelson Mandela"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
Alvin Toffler"The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do."
Abbie Hoffman"We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society."
Ben Carson"Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society."
Patrick J. Kennedy"I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for."
Helen Suzman"Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society."
Robert J. Shiller"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Thomas Szasz"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
Karl Marx"What's done to children, they will do to society."
Karl A. Menninger"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand."
Neil Armstrong"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."
Charles Kuralt"I want to make sure I do the right thing for society."
Eric Yuan"So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different."
Ava Max"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
John Adams"The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society."
Mark Skousen"Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today."
Hu Jintao"Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue."
Anna Maria Chavez"The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion."
Ulrich Beck"Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself."
Christina Grimmie"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
Potter Stewart"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
Alexis de Tocqueville"An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society."
Maria Semple"I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right?"
Cillian Murphy"Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society."
Clint Eastwood"There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys."
Eliezer Yudkowsky"People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society."
John Roberts"The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom."
Madeleine Albright"We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous."
David Suzuki"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
Abu Bakr"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."
John Lahr"One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction."
Mark Manson"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"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."
Randolph Bourne"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Charles Kuralt"Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything."
Herb Caen"Society is unity in diversity."
George Herbert Mead"Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society."
Joseph P. Bradley"Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics."
Victor Pinchuk"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
John F. Kennedy"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
Nelson Mandela"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
Howard Zinn"Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel."
Natan Sharansky"Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core."
Timothy Thomas Fortune"You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."
Bruce Springsteen"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
Anita Hill"I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary."
Nawaz Sharif"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."
J. B. Priestley"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
Albert Camus"Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society."
Edward Sapir"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Harry S Truman"For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves."
Boyan Slat"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
William Makepeace Thackeray"You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it."
Bob Kahn"I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it's really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you."
Storm Reid"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
Vladimir Lenin"If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort."
Jiddu Krishnamurti"My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society."
James Dean"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence."
Ron Paul"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."
Thom Mayne"I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society."
Aretha Franklin"I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea."
Bernie Sanders"Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society."
Wes Craven"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
Robert Frost"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
Albert Camus"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."
Martha Beck"I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society."
Anthony Fauci"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
Bill Vaughan"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
Oscar Wilde"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
Robert Bork"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"If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion."
Emile Durkheim"The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat."
Dave Barry"I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts."
H. G. Bissinger"What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy."
Adam Yauch"Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back."
Martin Yan"If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice."
Winnie Byanyima"Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society."
Arundhati Roy"Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality."
Janet Mock"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
B. R. Ambedkar"We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling."
Neil LaBute"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
Shirley Chisholm"Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture."
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni"Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood."
Jessica Chastain"Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society."
Muhammad Yunus"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
Angela Davis"The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be."
Wendell Pierce"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
Edward Snowden"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"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
Mignon McLaughlin"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"
Milton Friedman"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
Robert A. Heinlein"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
Vince Lombardi"Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way."
Anas Aremeyaw Anas"We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society - bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems."
Sanam Saeed"Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human."
Jan Koum"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
Robert Frost"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."
Carl Sandburg"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."
John W. Gardner"Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love."
Morihei Ueshiba"If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole."
Arthur Compton"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
Malcolm Muggeridge"Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults."
James Heckman"One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things. -Ban Ki"
moon"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach."
Ted Koppel"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
Friedrich Schiller"The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution."
Kenneth Frazier"When we change the way we communicate, we change society."
Clay Shirky"If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society."
Joni Eareckson Tada"The family is the first essential cell of human society."
Pope John XXIII"Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to."
William Golding"If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection."
Peter Lindbergh"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
Arnold Schwarzenegger"The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people. -Ko Wen"
je"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
Vince Lombardi"We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements."
Michel Foucault"Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility."
Terri Apter"Our society is used to judging content by its package and label."
Joanna Krupa"Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society."
Vijay Sethupathi"In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes."
Al Roker"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."
Albert Camus"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
Robert Orben"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
Niccolo Machiavelli"Where civil society is welcomed, communities are more safe, more secure, and more prosperous."
Ben Rhodes"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
Ruben Blades"In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life."
Julie Payette"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."
Fabrice Grinda"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."
Georges Bernanos"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
Henry David Thoreau"If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be."
William Golding"I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in."
Matthew Vaughn"We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society."
Ruby Bridges"Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?"
Rose George"Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships."
Delilah"The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact."
Cesare Beccaria"American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society."
Thomas Babington Macaulay"I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form."
Andrew Cuomo"We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice."
Sonia Sotomayor"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
Lee Iacocca"The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind."
Marina Abramovic"Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen."
Lauren DeStefano"Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities."
Evelyn Glennie"In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society."
Elise Stefanik"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
James Baldwin"The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart."
Greg Boyle"We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest."
Philip Gilbert Hamerton"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people."
Wilma Mankiller"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."
Karl Marx"It is not a fragrant world."
Raymond Chandler"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
Horace Walpole"Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society."
Maria Montessori"We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms."
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo"I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society."
Stellan Skarsgard"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."
Alice Walker"The happiness of society is the end of government."
John Adams"The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society."
Joe Biden"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
Isaac Asimov"You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. -Bashar al"
Assad"Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?"
Raquel Welch"Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free society. When any of those freedoms are threatened anywhere, they must be defended and protected everywhere."
Wayne LaPierre"When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate."
Michelle Alexander"We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself."
Zozibini Tunzi"A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement."
Jimmy Reid"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."
John F. Kennedy"It is accepted the world over that women are an essential part of what makes a society successful, and only through supporting and empowering women can a country truly be strong."
Shabana Azmi"The first step in empowerment is taking control of your health, respecting yourself and understanding and celebrating the value you bring to your family and society."
Milind Soman"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
Thomas Browne"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."
Naguib Mahfouz"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"I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us."
Seal"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
Herbert Spencer"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."
Preston Manning"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
Russell Baker"To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm."
Friedrich August von Hayek"A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right."
David Lammy"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
Margaret Mead"We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity."
Logan Browning"We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children."
Justin Trudeau"We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated."
Margaret Atwood"Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that."
Oprah Winfrey"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
Jacques Ellul"As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable."
Al Sharpton"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life."
Letitia Elizabeth Landon"We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law."
Al Sharpton"We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms."
Philip K. Dick"Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required."
Deeyah Khan"We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society."
Simon Mainwaring"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
Henri Frederic Amiel"Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards."
Kerry Stokes"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan"I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient."
Tom Frieden"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind."
Daisaku Ikeda"We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?"
Benjamin Bratt"Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry."
Jim Peebles"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."
Irving R. Kaufman"We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture."
Madeleine Albright"I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized."
Pavel Durov"Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society."
Bernice King"So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government."
Leila Janah"Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in."
Mary Wollstonecraft"Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society."
Ani DiFranco"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."
Oscar Wilde"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."
Victor Hugo"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."
Arnold J. Toynbee"Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society."
Alexander McCall Smith"Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter."
Kirti Kulhari"To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry, social reform all came together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and linked to the urban centres as equals. Our planning incorporates this basic insight."
Rajiv Gandhi"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
Theodore Roosevelt"Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life."
Martha Beck"Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society."
Herbert Read"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
John Lennon"The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch."
Matt Hancock"We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed. -Miriam Defensor"
Santiago"During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks."
William Julius Wilson"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."
Philip Guston"When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue."
Yoshihiko Noda"Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humanity; he is very human, very mortal. So he even gets hurt. He has a poor background, but when he wears the costume, he forgets all of that, all the pressures of the society on him."
Tiger Shroff"If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out."
Allan Savory"In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again."
Zygmunt Bauman"The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society."
Alain Aspect"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
Charles Horton Cooley"We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them."
Edward Snowden"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."
Mike Tyson"I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else."
Jazz Jennings"Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing."
Matthew Mercer"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
Ayn Rand"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."
Kenneth L. Pike"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
Martin Luther King, Jr."The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."
Adlai Stevenson I"It is good for society to have this introspection."
Jacques Verges"If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society."
Tim Wise"We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other."
Stan Lee"Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society. -Ban Ki"
moon"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
David Ogden Stiers"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
Noam Chomsky"Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor."
Henry Rollins"The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted."
Antonin Scalia"Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity."
Mohsen Makhmalbaf"I'm not an expert on politics, but there's a bunch of bad people at the top who care about lining their own pockets before creating a society that looks after the vulnerable."
Sam Fender"I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful."
Damien Hirst"Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy."
Lu Wei"At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another."
Whittaker Chambers"I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession."
John Wooden"There is no higher value in our society than integrity."
Arlen Specter"Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it."
Alan King"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."
Montesquieu"Our railways maintain a healthy economy and society. They keep businesses running and families close. They're a vital public service and must be treated as such."
Caroline Lucas"Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
George Orwell"Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking."
Ludwig von Mises"I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest."
A. Whitney Brown"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society."
Jack Kingston"The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in."
Karrine Steffans"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."
Charles E. Wilson"Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of."
Martin Parr"The word 'midget' is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum's era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it."
Sinead Burke"For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will."
Robert Sapolsky"The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes."
Tipper Gore"Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration."
Herbert Read"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success."
Mark Skousen"How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization."
Chen Guangcheng"Creativity is a game changer. That's true of society, in advertising and in life."
David Droga"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
Thomas Mann"The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively 'peaceful' the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society."
Murray Rothbard"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
Michel Foucault"'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one."
Naomi Wolf"There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society."
Maria Montessori"I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned."
Yayoi Kusama"I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society. -Fei"
Fei Li"I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all."
Conor Oberst"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
Paul Sweeney"A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world."
Ibrahim Babangida"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."
Jean de la Bruyere"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
Irv Kupcinet"Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society."
Jack Kingston"Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive."
Hugh Kingsmill"If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down."
B. F. Skinner"I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it."
John Mackey"My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound."
Ty Segall"Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. -Tim Berners"
Lee"Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should."
Asma Jahangir"It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."
Tom Brokaw"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."
Christopher Hitchens"This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of global warming and healthcare, this is a true crisis. This crisis threatens the very sovereignty of our country."
Steve Bannon"There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society."
Max Lucado"Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing."
Maryanne Wolf"Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business."
Whitney Wolfe Herd"Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society."
Alfred Austin"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day."
Bill Vaughan"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful."
Charles W. Pickering"You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from."
Michael Fassbender"The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society."
Doug Stanhope"When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking."
Shelby Foote"I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld."
Michael Newdow"I think that communalism is the cancer of our society, and if we have to protect the humanity and the unity and integrity of this country, then we will have to fight the communal forces."
Mamata Banerjee"Every society needs people who can encourage and stimulate and cheer. They are the ones who make the world run. You can be one of them!"
Richard M. DeVos"Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes."
Warren Farrell"Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts."
Seth Shostak"The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds."
Benjamin N. Cardozo"In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating."
Zygmunt Bauman"Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a punishment, but it's protecting society as a whole. -Ha Ha Clinton"
Dix"You have to look at history as an evolution of society."
Jean Chretien"I did some rescue work for Hurricane Katrina victims with a group of rescue people called Best Friends Society, who have a show on Discovery now called 'Dogtown.'"
Ivory"As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish."
Justin Welby"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."
Denis Diderot"I think that the big challenge of the 2020s for the country, and for the Conservative party, is to win the fight for free enterprise and the free society. This is under threat like at no other time in my lifetime. And the way that you do that is by demonstrating the benefits of a free market society."
Matt Hancock"It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything."
Stellan Skarsgard"The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession. -Bong Joon"
ho"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
Emma Goldman"I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women."
Sushmita Banerjee"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."
Evel Knievel"Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it's polluting behaviour, plastics, or whatever, and taxes the behaviour."
Edward Burtynsky"Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society."
George Soros"I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society."
Tupac Shakur