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" Quotes and Sayings About society

My name is Linda Ikeji and my time is different from yours. Just because you are not where the society said you should be at this point in your life, doesn’t make you late. It makes you ‘YOU’.

Life Late Make Point
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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.

Equal Equal Pay Feminist Pay
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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.

Society Make Our Right
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Another Education Generation Passes
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Attacks Early Helpless Individual
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Consider Essential Foundation Hold
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

Change Channels Full Ideal
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Address Become Belief Common
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Concerned Entire Health Individual
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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

Continue Matter Meet Open
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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

Duty Encouraged Getting Information
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Because Considered Coordinated Effective
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Adultery Forgives Gospel Never
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Roles Society Soldiers Tendency
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

American Become Dream Embrace
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

American American Society Dealing I Think
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Anyone Anything Dependent Hardly
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Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.

Children Demonstrate Effects Else
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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.

Society Shaped Rules Bum
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Average Person Fearful Group
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Charity Justice Less More
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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.

Advances Around Ask Been
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Burning Deploy Effect Environment
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Best Else Rational Rest
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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.

Abolish Act Association Begins
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Best Blessing Even Every
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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.

Community Continually Ears Ever
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When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

Always Amount Family Guarantee
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Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Nothing Brings More Happiness
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Achieve Change Destiny Enable
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Absence Better Civil Direction
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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Closing Conclude Equivalent Eyes
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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Great Great Society Move Only
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Bottom Society Country Split
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Humankind Laureate Nobel Obligation
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

America Common Democratic Faith
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Believe Built Connected Everyone
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The pivot upon which all the ills of our society rotates is poverty and hunger.
Pivot Poverty Ills Hunger
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Being Come Create Done
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Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Feel Fortunate Prescription Responsibility
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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Based Conditions Division Labor
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
Arisen Essence Out Peace
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

Believe Difficult Fidelity Killer
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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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.

Born Committed Crimes Deplorable
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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