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Society Quotes
"For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful"
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Primo Levi
"Our world is fast changing, but our basic ability to reason has remained largely unchanged for millennia."
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Sam Harris
"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi."
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William Faulkner
"Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease"
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Bill Maher
"What's done to children, they will do to society."
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Karl A. Menninger
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
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Margaret Mead
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do"
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B. F. Skinner
"Society attacks early when the individual is helpless"
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B. F. Skinner
"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works"
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Bill Vaughan
"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."
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Milton Friedman
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity"
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Hunter S. Thompson
"There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym"
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Lewis Grizzard
"From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world"
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Susan Wojcicki
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Society changes only if people want it badly enough. And in that regard, emotional literacy can have the greatest effect of all: it empowers people to direct their lives."
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Daniel Goleman
"A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion"
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Edmund Burke
"The happiness of any society begins with the well-being of the families that live in it"
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Kofi Annan
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
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Bertrand Russell
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