Best Society Qoutes
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All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that…
— John Quincy Adams
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Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.
— Dan Quayle
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
— Albert Camus
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Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
— Ayn Rand
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Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
— Thomas Paine
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In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world…
— Ronald Reagan
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is…
— Margaret Mead
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you…
— Midge Decter
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There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed…
— Charles Brent
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Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society…
— Dennis Hastert
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster…
— Lewis Mumford
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You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
— Tupac Shakur
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Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of…
— Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in…
— Robert Kennedy
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The first duty of society is justice.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
— Muhammad Ali
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To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
— James A. Baldwin
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I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time…
— Shirley Chisholm
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