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- What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
- Colin Powell on Society
- What's done to children, they will do to society.
- Karl A. Menninger on Society
- When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
- Carl Sandburg on Society
- When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
- Andrea Jung on Society
- When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
- Bayard Rustin on Society
- When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Pope John Paul II on Society
- When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
- Anna Deavere Smith on Society
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
- Isaac Asimov on Society
- When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.
- Lauryn Hill on Society
- When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
- John Boyd Orr on Society
- When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Society
- When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
- Charles Kuralt on Society
- When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
- Wendell Willkie on Society
- When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
- K. D. Lang on Society
- When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
- Michael Bloomberg on Society
- When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
- Clarence Thomas on Society
- When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
- H. Rap Brown on Society
- When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
- Tom Vilsack on Society
- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
- Frederick Douglass on Society
- Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Society
- Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
- Joaquin Phoenix on Society
- While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Society
- Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
- Washington Irving on Society
- Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
- Pervez Musharraf on Society
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Erich Fromm on Society
- Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
- Albert Camus on Society
- Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
- Jenny McCarthy on Society
- Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
- Elie Wiesel on Society
- Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
- Erica Jong on Society
- Women are the real architects of society.
- Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
- Scott Adams on Society
- Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
- Naomi Wolf on Society
- Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
- Candace Bushnell on Society
- Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
- Jessamyn West on Society
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
- Karen Armstrong on Society
- Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
- Thomas Frank on Society
- You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
- Charles Kuralt on Society
- You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
- Bruce Springsteen on Society
- You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
- Art Buchwald on Society
- You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
- Bashar Al-Assad on Society
- You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
- John Perry Barlow on Society
- You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
- Adam Carolla on Society
- You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.
- Shailene Woodley on Society
- You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.
- Alice Cooper on Society
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Society
- You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
- Kathleen Turner on Society
- You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
- Colin Farrell on Society
- You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
- Samantha Morton on Society
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