Best Society Sayings
8263 Society quotes by 4010 unique authors
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
— Beck
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
— Martha Beck
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the…
— Brendan Behan
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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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…
— Peter L. Berger
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
— Alfred Adler
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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
— Alfred Adler
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
— Aneurin Bevan
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
— Joe Biden
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We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
— Joe Biden
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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
— Joe Biden
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
— Theodor Adorno
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private…
— Theodor Adorno
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
— Theodor Adorno
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There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
— Hugo Black
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