Quotes by society

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Geoffrey F. Abert
American author

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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Frank Zappa
American rock musician 1940-

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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist and politician 1891-1956

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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Kofi Annan
Ghanaian diplomat 1938-

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998)
Carroll Quigley
American historian and theorist 1910-1977

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There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
P. J. O'Rourke
American journalist 1947-

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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Alice Walker
American Author, Critic 1944-

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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Jung Chang
Chinese-born British writer 1952-

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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist and politician 1891-1956

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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Confucius
Chinese philosopher 551 BC - 479 BC

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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Austrian-American economist 1883-1950

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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
A. Whitney Brown
American writer and comedian 1952-

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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
Henry David Thoreau
American writer 1817-1862

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Robert Penn Warren

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I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism - that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.