Society Quotes

I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

Dinesh D'Souza

LiveJusticeLawEvilSocietyEye

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Pope John XXIII

FamilySocietyHumanFirstEssential

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Joe Mantegna

SocietyStillWaysLotPuritanical

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

Lynsey Addario

WomenMenSocietyPlaceAfghanistan

By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.

Amity Shlaes

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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

Michael Leunig

ChildrenSocietyLookPlayWill

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

Bryan Batt

LifeLoveHappySocietyThinkYou

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

PeopleSocietyLegalLivingLaws

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

John Madden

SuccessChampionSocietyAnything

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

LifePurposeSocietyCharmInclude

I just didn't realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.

Roger Ross Williams

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When we engage in the critical decisions about our nation's future budgets, I want progressive voices at the table to argue that we must protect the most vulnerable in our society and demand fairness in budget cuts.

Dick Durbin

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In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

Susan Cain

ValueSocietyThinkSelfBoldOut

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Jim Costa

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Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'

Lisa Ann Walter

WaterSocietyEnoughYouKnowNever

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Alphonso Jackson

SuccessGreatSocietyLookBackNow

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation.

Frans de Waal

TravelSocietyEasyYouLookHuman

Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

Louise Wilson

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We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.

Bob Iger

LiveSocietyActRoleDifferent

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

Rick Pitino

BeginningSocietyAmericanKnowWild

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

John McCain

SocietyFreePoliticalValuesDare

Chinese society is organised around the family unit.

Guo Guangchang

FamilySocietyChineseUnitAround

I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.

Robin DiAngelo

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