Societies Quotes
629 Societies quotes by 480 unique authors
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We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.…
— Ronald Reagan
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The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography, race, age or…
— Pope John Paul II
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty…
— Tony Snow
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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one…
— Polly Toynbee
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If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside…
— Robert Wright
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Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.
— John Quincy Adams
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Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
— Bertrand Russell
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Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to…
— John W. Gardner
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Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting…
— Ronald Reagan
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Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most…
— Algernon Sidney
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In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are…
— Max Lerner
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Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
— Jean Piaget
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With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process…
— Charles Darwin
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May this colloquium be an inspiration to all who seek to support and strengthen the union of man and woman in marriage as a unique,…
— Pope Francis
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The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If…
— Arthur Caplan
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All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.
— George Carlin
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Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
— Helen Clark
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Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.
— Daniel Ek
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The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has…
— Guy Debord
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