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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

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3 December 2020 Roger Goodell

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton

It’s long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

3 December 2020 Robertson Davies

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

3 December 2020 Clara Zetkin

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

3 December 2020 Susan Sontag

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

3 December 2020 Alfred Austin

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

3 December 2020 William S. Burroughs

There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.

3 December 2020 Preston Manning

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

3 December 2020 Stephen Covey

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

3 December 2020 Scott Adams

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

3 December 2020 Thomas Browne

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

3 December 2020 Edward Bernays

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

3 December 2020 Sean Penn

So if we have anything original to offer, it’s to speak from our own life about the society we’re in.

3 December 2020 Edward Abbey

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

3 December 2020 Theodore Sturgeon

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn’t hypnotize me.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

3 December 2020 Lord Acton

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

3 December 2020 Dirk Kempthorne

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive – making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

3 December 2020 Jim Carrey

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

3 December 2020 Michael Moore

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it’s not good to limit the number of voices.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn’t value a white man because he’s a white man, but also doesn’t value a woman because she’s a woman, or a black because he’s a black.

3 December 2020 Valerie Solanas

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

3 December 2020 Carroll O'Connor

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

3 December 2020 Neil Armstrong

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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