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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society.… — Jerry Bridges
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until… — Stephen Covey
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have… — Jean Baker Miller
It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to… — George W. Bush
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in… — Thomas Jefferson
We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that… — Madeleine Albright
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical,… — George F. Kennan
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade… — Germaine Greer
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of… — Emile Durkheim
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.… — Emile Durkheim
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The… — Emile Durkheim
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people… — Aberjhani
After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own. — Rachel Maddow
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. — Harry Belafonte
It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by… — Giorgio Armani
Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society.… — Unknown Author
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. — Helen Caldicott
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see… — Hu Jintao
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral… — Unknown Author
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in… — Yvon Chouinard
By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose.… — Spencer Abraham
As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration… — Gaylord Nelson
In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist. — Ernest Hemingway

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