3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
3 December 2020 Kjell Magne Bondevik A person’s worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
3 December 2020 George Orwell Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
3 December 2020 John Locke To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
3 December 2020 Ray Charles I did it to myself. It wasn’t society… it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
3 December 2020 James Earl Jones And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
3 December 2020 Aneurin Bevan Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
3 December 2020 Audre Lorde But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
3 December 2020 Henrik Ibsen The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society.
3 December 2020 Phil McGraw The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.
3 December 2020 Gary Bauer The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character – not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don’t think the political process could actually handle that.
3 December 2020 Charles Kuralt I don’t have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
3 December 2020 Bhumibol Adulyadej A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.
3 December 2020 Tim Holden The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society’s democratic values.
3 December 2020 Johann Most Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
3 December 2020 Naguib Mahfouz 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.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky 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.
