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3 December 2020 Rutherford B. Hayes

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

3 December 2020 John Andrew Holmes

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

3 December 2020 Herb Caen

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

3 December 2020 Angela Davis

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

3 December 2020 Johann Most

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

3 December 2020 Edward Bond

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn’t it? That’s the place where your dreams will come true. It’s an act of faith now they think that’s going to sort things out.

3 December 2020 Alice Walker

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

3 December 2020 K. D. Lang

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

3 December 2020 Colin Farrell

You’re scrutinized all through your life – you’re scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

3 December 2020 Miriam Makeba

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

3 December 2020 Barbra Streisand

Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

3 December 2020 Charles Horton Cooley

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

3 December 2020 Martin Sheen

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

3 December 2020 John Gilmore

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That’s the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

3 December 2020 Minoru Yamasaki

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

3 December 2020 Danica McKellar

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it’s not for them. It’s for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

3 December 2020 Julie Burchill

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if – to quote Professor Higgins – a woman could be more like a man.

3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

3 December 2020 Marco Rubio

We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

3 December 2020 Alfred Adler

The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

3 December 2020 John Updike

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

3 December 2020 Christopher Dawson

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

3 December 2020 David Cameron

I think we need to just be very clear about what we’re trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we’re not trying to create the perfect democracy. We’re never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

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