Society Quotes - Page 26

• Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

  Kathleen Turner

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Benefits

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• You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

  Kathleen Turner

  Helping Others, People, Volunteer

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• The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Mind, Belief

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• Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

  Julia Cameron

  Encouragement, Water, Support

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.264, Souvenir Press

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• When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

  Brian Wesbury

  Creativity, People, Community

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• No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

  Basil W. Maturin

  Community, Trying, Knows

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• It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Fall, Errors, Government

  American Communications Ass'n v. Douds (1950)

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• Vote early and vote often.

  Al Capone

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• I think it would be a good idea.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

  Alan Paton

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Men

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• The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This is an opportunity for all of us around the globe to celebrate the diversity of our societies and to honor the contributions that our fellow citizens of African descent make every day to the economic, social and political fabrics of our communities.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Years, Organization

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• The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Race, Color

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• We rise by lifting others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Helping Others, Public Service, Lifting Others

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• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Public Opinion, Privacy, Weak

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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• As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

  Theodore Parker

  Poverty, Poor, Standards

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Critical Writings”, p.136

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• Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

  Henry George

  Poverty, Hell, Enough

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Hurt

  Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate

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• Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

  Paul MacCready

  Grandchildren, Environmental, Fetch

  "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

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• If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

  Jacques Barzun

  Future, Civilization, Vision

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiring, Earth Day, Environmental

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• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.

  Paul Hawken

  Dark, Order, Environmental

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• There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

  Annie Lennox

  Motivation, Significant Change, Needs

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• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Technology, People

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Stupid, School

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• To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

  Rajneesh

  Individual, Valuable, Whole

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