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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

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. — Paul Watson

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

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

I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched. — Anna L. Davis

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different. — Jacob Bronowski

Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to those who seem farthest away, most indifferent. — Pope Francis

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

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. — Ayn Rand

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

We live in the irradiated lazy indoor cancer society. — Steven Magee

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. — Carlos Salinas De Gortari

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

Mutual cheating is the foundation of society. — Blaise Pascal

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

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. — Winona LaDuke

If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too. — Hugh Hefner

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

Good paperbacks are among the most valuable weapons of any society. Good hardcovers doubly so. — Matthew Keefer

Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria. — Lynne McTaggart

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. — David Ogilvy

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

We are living in the falsehood due to the erroneous teachings of the society, community and the bordered nations. — Vishal Chipkar

A man is not known by what he wears but only when the society undresses him. — Amit Abraham

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater

Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall. — Abhijit Naskar

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

To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within. — Tyler J. Hebert

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society. — Charles Koch

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. — Max Cannon

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

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers? — Chris Cleave

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. — Basil Hume

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

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

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it? — Gustave Le Bon

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

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. — Cesar Chavez

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest. — Mahatma Gandhi

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. — Eliot Spitzer

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

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

If you've read any comics, you know superheroes have a critical vulnerability: the society they protect. — Karen Marie Moning

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world. — Matthew Kelly

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle.

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where. — Rolf-Dieter Heuer

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing. — Yakov Smirnoff

It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen. — Graham Steele

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

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. — Algernon Sidney

Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace. — John McKnight

In this moment, I am a god. — Marie Lu

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society. — Marya Mannes

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. — Edmund Leach

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

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

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. — J. William Fulbright

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins

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

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. — Osamu Dazai

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. — Karl Marx

This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth. — Peter Hitchens

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. — Tamara Rose Blodgett

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

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person. — Dean Smith

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

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners — Winston S. Churchill

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine — Christopher Hitchens

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. — Paul Sweeney

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom. — J.G. Ballard

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. — Richard J. Foster

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. — Andrew Young

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. — Charles De Secondat

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes. — Ayn Rand

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

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding. — Liam Neeson

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building. — Donald Sadoway

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself. — Nelson Mandela

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. — Naguib Mahfouz

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. — Daisaku Ikeda

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead. — Roger Scruton

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

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. — Christopher Lasch

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society. — Alan Dershowitz

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. — David Baltimore

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