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No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.
— Jacques Chirac
In a cold night, even if there is only one homeless living on the streets, this means that you are living in a God damn bad society!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.
— Tiger Woods
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
— Michael Ignatieff
You can do anything you want in the United States of you wear a suit and tie...especially if you are white. That also helps.
— Betty Medsger
It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.
— Tom Coburn
Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
— Joseph Stalin
Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.
— Imre Kertesz
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
— Marshall McLuhan
We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation.
— L.G. Durand
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.
— Naomie Harris
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
— Frances O'Grady
A dementia-friendly society is not yet in reach.
— Meryl Comer
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.
— Nelson Mandela
To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.
— Marilyn Monroe
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.
— Lillian B. Rubin
Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia;
— Jane Austen
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.
— Hugh Hefner
Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria.
— Lynne McTaggart
America's a very traumatized society.
— Alanis Morissette
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
— Steve Earle
Society always has problems with anyone who combines courage and curiosity with a strong belief in oneself.
— Protima Bedi
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
— Eliot Spitzer
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
— Thabo Mbeki
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
— Vladimir Putin
Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.
— G.K. Chesterton
Society is indeed a contract ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
— Edmund Burke
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
— Jeanette Winterson
I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
— Michelle Rodriguez
If you've read any comics, you know superheroes have a critical vulnerability: the society they protect.
— Karen Marie Moning
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it
— Gunter Pauli
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
— Thabo Mbeki
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
— James Howard Kunstler
If one read [Lady Whistledown's Society Papers] often enough, one could almost feel a part of London society without actually attending any balls.
— Julia Quinn
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
— Michelle Singletary
I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.
— Rick Warren
Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.
— Paul Verhaeghe
Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star.
— G.C. Huxley
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
— A.J. Quinnell
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
— Milton Sapirstein
A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society.
— Henry Johnson Jr
One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.
— Vladimir Lenin
I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.
— Richard Fortey
She was a lovely woman, fitted both by nature and education to be an ornament to society and her family.
— Rebecca Shannonhouse
Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
— Yo-Yo Ma
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
— Theodor Adorno
In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.
— Kenneth L. Woodward
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.
— David Baltimore
This gap perpetuates a cycle of injustice in our society that often begins in middle school with suspension practices.
— Phyllis Hunter
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
— Rita Mae Brown
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
Batman: You can't build a better world by killing criminals--it bankrupts your soul and society's by reinforcing the same cycle of violence.
— Peter J. Tomasi
In this moment, I am a god.
— Marie Lu
Society was built on a foundation of fear, not authenticity. I get too numb when I join the world. I lose my openness, my access to the divine.
— Jeff Brown
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.
— Tiffani Thiessen
Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
— A.E. Samaan
If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
— Colin Ward
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.
— Nick Love
Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
— Naomi Wolf
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
— Honore De Balzac
Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.
— David Blunkett
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.
— Mao Zedong
That a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
— David Hume
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
— Saadi
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
— J.G. Ballard
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
Sang's ass was not so much an ass but a continuation of leg and bone, covered by pockets because society demanded it be covered by pockets.
— Sloane Crosley
It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.
— Camille Paglia
We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence.
— Asa Don Brown
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
— Tim Jackson
We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.
— Jane McGonigal
A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners
— Winston S. Churchill