Society Quotes - Page 14

• The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Strong, Women, Important

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• The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Freedom, Men, Power

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.61

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• If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

  Ralph Ellison

  Real, Teaching, Singing

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• The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities.

  Tomochichi

  Native American, Men, White

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• The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Inspirational, Freedom, Differences

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• During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.

  Jerry Falwell

  God, Sports, Christian

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• A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Engineering, America, Community

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• When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

  Pope Pius XI

  God, Christian, Jesus

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

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Humanity

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

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

  Gerda Lerner

  Life, Running, Men

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

  Ivy Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Truth

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

  William Beveridge

  Money, Freedom, Government

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

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

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Black, Occupation

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

  Bill Shankly

  Funny, Sports, Football

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

  Robert D. Putnam

  Life, Change, Differences

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

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Change, Ideas, Requirements

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

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• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Rights, Coal Miners

  Quoted in Woman's Own, 31 Oct. 1987

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

  Jacque Fresco

  Integrity, Fighting, Equality

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

  Timothy Leary

  Civilization, Unbearable

  "Still Casting Shadows: A Shared Mosaic of U.s. History". Book by B. Clay Shannon, p. 376, 2006.

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• Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Importance Of Being Earnest, Speak

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.65, Dramatic Publishing

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, Justice, Black History

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• 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

  Education, Peace, Exercise

  Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Real, Anger, Needs

  "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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