c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
— Larry Page
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
— John le Carre
The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
— Ezra Taft Benson
If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
— Denis Villeneuve
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
— A. J. Liebling
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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. Roosevelt
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. 
— George Bernard Shaw
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
— George Orwell
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
— Milton Friedman
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
— Neil Armstrong
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
— Robert Frost
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
— Robert Frost
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
— Angela Davis
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What's done to children, they will do to society.
— Karl A. Menninger
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
— Alex Grey
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
— Valerie Solanas
We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
— Gary Johnson
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
— Erma Bombeck
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
— Solon
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.
— Steven Pinker
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
— Herbert Spencer
The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
— David Cameron
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.
— Ruth Rendell
Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
— Clifton Daniel
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
— David Rockefeller
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
— Helen Suzman
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.
— Simon Mainwaring
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.
— Clay Shirky
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
— Elie Wiesel
I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
— Damien Rice
Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
— Jeremy Corbyn
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
— Maajid Nawaz
In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
— Bhagat Singh
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
— Jean Cocteau
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
— Henry Anatole Grunwald
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
— John Stuart Mill
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
— Aneurin Bevan
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
— Charles Horton Cooley
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
— Margaret Oliphant
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
— John Cheever
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
— Janet Napolitano
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
— George Soros
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
— John Kasich
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.
— Alan Bates
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
— Jerry Springer
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
— Daniel De Leon
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion it shows that society is rotten to the core. 
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
— Abu Bakr
It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
— Bille August
I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
— Roy Lichtenstein
In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.
— Leland Stanford
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
— Edward Everett
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
— Jacques Ellul
Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol that's part of society. 
— Jamie Lee Curtis
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
— Simon Newcomb
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
— William Kingdon Clifford
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
— James Q. Wilson
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. 
— Jerry Falwell
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
— Ron Paul
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
— Thomas Sowell
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
— John Ralston Saul
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.
— Mariano Rajoy
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
— Sally Ride
There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.
— Ian MacKaye
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
— E. O. Wilson
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
— Mo Yan
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
— Lucy Powell
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
— Ray Dalio
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
— Bear Grylls
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
— Pope Francis
Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
— Kim Harrison
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
— Sam Harris
I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.
— Elizabeth Strout
The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
— Marina Abramovic
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
— Neil Strauss
Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for sick members, of support for others in time of crisis and of care for the elderly and the dying.
— Vincent Nichols
I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.
— Raven-Symone
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
— Susan Cain
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
— Victor Pinchuk
I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
— Yang Lan
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
— Emile Durkheim
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
— Thomas Sowell
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.
— William Julius Wilson
I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.
— Russell Means
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
— bell hooks
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
— Raymond Loewy
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
— Bobby Seale
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
— Ziggy Marley
Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society.
— John Ridley
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
— Brendan Myers
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
— Aberjhani
It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
— Noam Chomsky
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
— Ban Ki-moon
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
— Edward Bond
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.
— Ezra Miller
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture. 
— Madeleine Albright
For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.
— Warren Farrell
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
— Peter L. Berger
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
— Robert Owen
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
— Albert Camus
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society. 
— Judith Light
No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
— Bhagat Singh
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
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
— Michael Haneke
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
— James Dean
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
— Emma Goldman
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
— Kapil Dev
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
— Jean Baudrillard
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
— B. F. Skinner
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
— Jerry Garcia
I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
— Jeremy Lin
Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.
— Lev Vygotsky
In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
— Henry Paulson
Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
— Jochen Zeitz
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
— Albert Camus
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
— Tom Brokaw
Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and cohesive society. We have seen the destruction it is causing around the world.
— Pauline Hanson
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
— Noam Chomsky
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
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
— Evelyn Glennie
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
— David Ricardo
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
— Chen Guangcheng
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
— Pauline Hanson
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
— Ban Ki-moon
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
The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this.
— Henrik Fisker
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
— Marilyn Monroe
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
— Herbert Read
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
— Timothy Leary
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
— Victor Hugo
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. 
— Robert Frost
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
— Lionel Trilling
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
— Edmund Burke
What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
— Magdi Yacoub
We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.
— Frank Abagnale
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
— Tim Robbins
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
— V. S. Naipaul
We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.
— Julia Butterfly Hill
I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
— Russell Simmons
If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.
— Alice Waters
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
— Rose George
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
— Joe Biden
There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
— Arlen Specter
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
— Peter Senge
A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
— Carl Sandburg
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
— Horace Walpole
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
— Simone de Beauvoir
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
— Wilkie Collins
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
— Stanley Crouch
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
— R. D. Laing
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
— Pamela Anderson
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
— J. K. Rowling
It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
— Blake Mycoskie
Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.
— Alan Greenspan
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'
— Martin O'Malley
I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
— Kara Walker
I believe that, if managed well, the Fourth Industrial Revolution can bring a new cultural renaissance, which will make us feel part of something much larger than ourselves: a true global civilization. I believe the changes that will sweep through society can provide a more inclusive, sustainable and harmonious society. But it will not come easily.
— Klaus Schwab
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
— Marshall McLuhan
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
— John Lahr
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
— Washington Irving
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
— Louis Althusser
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
— John Pomfret
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.
— Mike Lowry
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
— John Burroughs
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
— Harriet Martineau
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
— Ian MacKaye
If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.
— Serj Tankian
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
— Alanis Morissette
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
— Christopher Hitchens
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
— John Roberts
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
— Margaret Atwood
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
— Andrew Young
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
— Oriana Fallaci
You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
— Bob Kahn
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
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
— Cynthia P. Schneider
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
— Ralph Nader
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
— Mahatma Gandhi
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
— John Hutton
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
— Tom Brokaw
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
— Barbara Bush
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
— James Anthony Froude
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
— Michel Foucault
So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.
— Geoff Mulgan
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
— Maya Angelou
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
— Alfred Austin
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
— Daniel Webster
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
— Herb Caen
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. 
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not a fragrant world.
— Raymond Chandler
Solitude shows us what should be society shows us what we are. 
— Robert Cecil
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
— H. L. Mencken
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
— Susan Sontag
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
— William S. Burroughs
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
— Richard J. Daley
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
We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.
— Mel Martinez
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
— Mary McAleese
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
— Cokie Roberts
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
— Major Owens
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
— Charlton Heston
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
— Howard Mumford Jones
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
— John Clayton
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
— Leland Stanford
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
— Hal Holbrook
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.
— Juan Cole
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
— Stokely Carmichael
Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
— Ajay Devgan
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
— Malcolm Boyd
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
— Naguib Mahfouz
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society. 
— Anne Lamott
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
— Octavio Paz
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
— Robertson Davies
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
— Orson Scott Card
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
— Simone Weil
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
— Ted Koppel
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
— Charles Dickens
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
— Gloria Steinem
We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.
— Mike Peters
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
— Jude Law
Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.
— David Petraeus
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
— Jenny McCarthy
I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.
— Mitt Romney
Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
— Jason Priestley
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
— Annie Lennox
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
— Terry Pratchett
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
— Eric Schmidt
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
— William Hague
One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.
— Francois Hollande
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
— Ernest Gaines
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
— Pope Theodoros II
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
— Phil McGraw
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
— Adam Carolla
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.
— Corey Feldman
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
— John Key
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
— Paul Keating
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
— Julian Barnes
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.
— David Puttnam
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
— Irrfan Khan
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.
— Rebecca Solnit
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
— Ha-Joon Chang
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
— Ellen G. White
Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.
— Cai Guo-Qiang
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.
— Michael Franti
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
— Aimee Mullins
It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'
— Alain de Botton
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
— Thomas Sowell
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
— Geoff Mulgan
Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
— Hanna Rosin
A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
— Jackson Katz
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
— Andrew Young
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
— Andrew Young
I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
— Steve Buscemi
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
— Chinua Achebe
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
— Kirk Cameron
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
— Michael Porter
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
— Warren Farrell
I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.
— Wole Soyinka
Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.
— Richard Attias
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
— Matthew Shultz
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
— Dana Priest