Society Quotes
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Congress acknowledged that society`s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
William Bernbach
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All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
William Bernbach
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society
Thomas Paine
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The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret fr...
Starhawk
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It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
Stanley Milgram
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
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Censorship reflects a society`s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Potter Stewart
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Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church`s agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism
Michael Scott Horton
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The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
Louis Lecoin
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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.
John Andrew Holmes
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Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn`t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or c...
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it
Howard Mumford Jones
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Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
Henry Thomas Buckle
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A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
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A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek proverb
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
G. B. Stern
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.
Felix Frankfurter
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
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The Supreme Court`s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman
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If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.
Brian Philcox
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Bernard Berenson
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When an individual is protesting society`s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard Rustin
Keywords: acknowledge :: act :: an :: as :: being :: confers :: dignity :: him :: his :: human :: individual :: is :: of :: on :: protest :: protesting :: refusal :: society :: to :: very :: whenSubject: Dignity Quotes :: Protest QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide
