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That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved
the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson
the Great Society. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
— Murray Rothbard
What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
— Anne Frank
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
— Fareed Zakaria
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
— Eric Hoffer
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
— Benjamin Disraeli
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
— Mark Steyn
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
— Nicolas Chamfort
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
— Oscar Wilde
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.
— Rene Girard
The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace
— Karen Armstrong
Advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great.
— Jane Austen
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.
— Doris Janzen Longacre
Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.
— George Eliot
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
— John F. Kennedy
To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?
— Ayn Rand
The great hope of society is in individual character.
— William Ellery Channing
The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.
— Bella Thorne
Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.
— J. Gordon Melton
The great Sage follows his own nature and not that of society, following the fruit not the flower, he stays with the truth while rejecting the false
— Dennis Waller
The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
— Noam Chomsky
As a society, we've learned that we're all better off
when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation. — Edward Kennedy
when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation. — Edward Kennedy
But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.
— Alphonso Jackson
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.
— Mas Oyama
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.
— Noam Chomsky
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
— Joseph Lancaster
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
— Paul Keating
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.
— William Graham Sumner
Habit is the great flywheel of society.
— William James
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
— Pope Paul VI
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
— Baron De Montesquieu
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.
— Jeffrey Lewis
The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.
— Rebecca Solnit
In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
— Camille Paglia
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
— Algernon Sidney
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.
— David Baltimore
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic.
— Bell Hooks
A great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society.
— J. Stalin
One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.
— Lawrence Lessig
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
— Willa Cather
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— Saint Augustine
The achievements and discoveries of a great but dying society can bring light to a young and growing one.
— Morgan Llywelyn
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
— James Madison
Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.
— Alain De Botton
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
— Gaston Caperton
Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.
— Gail Carriger
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
— Gustave Flaubert
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
— Kenzo Tange
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
Anger at injustice has righted more wrongs than most other things, and it is one of the great creative forces in a civilized society.
— Anne Perry
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
— Bong Joon-ho
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
— Charles Darwin
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
— William Wordsworth
The spirit of rebellion can exist only in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The
— Albert Camus
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Many great failures lead to the ultimate success
— Miguel El Portugues