Quotes: society
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Confucius
Chinese philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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.
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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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.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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