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719 Our Society quotes by 579 unique authors
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If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must…
— John F. Kennedy
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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…
— Ted Koppel
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It's too bad our society isn't further along.
— Sally Ride
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It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind…
— Jane Jacobs
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It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged…
— Audre Lorde
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There is an absence of democratic accountability and control in every sphere of government and the state. To address this debilitating legacy requires determined action…
— Nelson Mandela
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
— Richard Dawkins
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony…
— Paul D. Boyer
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If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we…
— Jim DeMint
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Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially…
— Unknown Author
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Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and…
— Barack Obama
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
— Valerie Solanas
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Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with…
— William J Doherty
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Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist.…
— Eva Paterson
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There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
— Alan AtKisson
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Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live…
— P. M. Forni
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No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually…
— William J. Murray
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The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
— Dorothy Fields
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The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to man,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have…
— Luis Gutierrez
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
— Marya Mannes
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Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
— Edward Bond
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