Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.
Lawrence Wright
MenSocietyObscureMostContempt
People don't talk about the amount of destruction in terms of human lives that happen, whether it's through slavery, or through, for example, what Belgium was doing in the Congo - the fragmentation of society that happened after that destruction of human life.
Uzodinma Iweala
LifePeopleSlaverySocietyDoing
The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
Gary Bauer
GoodMomentPurposePeopleSociety
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.
Vint Cerf
ResponsibilityGovernmentLawSociety
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
Daniel Dennett
CouragePastCelebrateSocietyFree
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf
BeautyWomanSocietySayingProblem
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
Charles Sturt
FutureSocietyLandImprovingMeans
I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross training and weight training in every sport and from middle school kids to senior citizens.
Lee Haney
LoveTrainingSchoolSocietyYou
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
Tariq Ali
IdentitySocietyPoliticalAmerica
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman
WarSocietyFindTerrorismKind
The truth is the only thing that will move society forwards.
Viv Albertine
TruthSocietyTruth IsWillMove
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
Daniel Pennac
SchoolSocietyCountryCrisisThinks
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
Mahavira
SocietyHandsYouWealthNeedSame
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
Charles Bukowski
I AmRelaxSocietyMoralsRules
In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.
Lee Kuan Yew
FreedomSocietyAnarchyNaturalOnly
While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
Taylor Sheridan
SocietyFeelImportantWatchingLike
We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
Gaby Hoffmann
SocietyHouseSummerWelfareLived
The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.
Vladimir Putin
WorkPeopleSocietySecurityOwn
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.
Daniel Radcliffe
FunnyHateSocietyBetterFindWant
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma Gandhi
MenSocietyAlwaysProgressiveMust
The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.
Cesare Beccaria
SocietyAuthorityPunishmentLaws
I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.
Lauren Alaina
SocietyPressureFeelTryingMeet
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
Tad Williams
TechnologySocietyBelieveGrowWill
I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.
Garry Hynes
CollegeSocietyBornDramaUp
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