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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

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3 December 2020 Gerard Butler

I was training to be a lawyer… I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

3 December 2020 Peter Medawar

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

3 December 2020 Jo Brand

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it’s something to do with the social structure of society.

3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

3 December 2020 Pervez Musharraf

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

3 December 2020 A. J. Liebling

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

3 December 2020 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

3 December 2020 Anna Deavere Smith

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

3 December 2020 Nat Turner

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

3 December 2020 George Osborne

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

3 December 2020 Adam Carolla

A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money – do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It’s us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

3 December 2020 Jinato Hu

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

3 December 2020 Alexander McCall Smith

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

3 December 2020 Jacques Verges

It is good for society to have this introspection.

3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer

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

3 December 2020 Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can’t meet the demands of being a modern society.

3 December 2020 Ron Lewis

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

3 December 2020 Jeff Miller

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

3 December 2020 John Major

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

3 December 2020 Warren Farrell

Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

3 December 2020 B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

3 December 2020 Rand Paul

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

3 December 2020 Arlen Specter

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

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