Society quotations

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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. Gardner99

◆ Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

- Karl Marx99

◆ The most violent element in society is ignorance.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

- Howard Zinn99

◆ Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

- Thomas Szasz99

◆ In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

- Alex Grey99

◆ We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

- Pearl S. Buck99

◆ You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

- Charles Kuralt99

◆ A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

- Bhumibol Adulyadej99

◆ I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

- Morihei Ueshiba99

◆ We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

- Angela Davis99

◆ Someday, I hope I live in a world where people look at the heart of a person instead of the color of their skin!

- Sarah Moores99

◆ No. girls don't just want to have fun. We can laugh we can cry, we can come undone. We're so much more than a magazine can't you see? It's a fight with society.

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