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Society Quotes by Barack Obama
- I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain…
- The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They…
- We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.
- My biggest frustration so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of…
- I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and…
- Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and…
- The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of…
- The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society…
- When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the…
- Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held…
- In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike…
- The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature…
- The absence of hope can rot a society from within.
- Often with little power or sway on their own, nurses -- mostly women, historically -- have been a force of will and a sense of…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi