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- I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
- Eric Schmidt on Society
- I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
- I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
- Charles Kuralt on Society
- I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
- Marilyn Monroe on Society
- I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
- Todd Gitlin on Society
- I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
- Marlo Thomas on Society
- I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
- William Hague on Society
- I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
- Hilary Swank on Society
- I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.
- Sienna Miller on Society
- I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
- Mike Tyson on Society
- I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
- Mike Tyson on Society
- I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
- Lionel Blue on Society
- I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
- Pete Townshend on Society
- I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.
- George Soros on Society
- I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
- Anne Lamott on Society
- I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
- Charles Kuralt on Society
- I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau on Society
- 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 old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
- Brendan Behan on Society
- I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
- Peter Fonda on Society
- I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
- Robert W. Service on Society
- I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
- Nelson Mandela on Society
- I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Society
- I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.
- Eliot Spitzer on Society
- I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Society
- I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
- Dean Koontz on Society
- I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
- Jodie Foster on Society
- I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
- Peter Singer on Society
- I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
- Yani Tseng on Society
- I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
- Warren Mitchell on Society
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson on Society
- I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.
- Kevin Smith on Society
- I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
- Stephen Jay Gould on Society
- I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.
- David Miliband on Society
- I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
- K. D. Lang on Society
- I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
- I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
- Erma Bombeck on Society
- I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
- Elizabeth Gilbert on Society
- I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
- I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
- Samantha Morton on Society
- I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
- Camille Paglia on Society
- I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
- Nelson Mandela on Society
- I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
- Quincy Jones on Society
- I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
- George Saunders on Society
- I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
- Sara Blakely on Society
- I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde on Society
- I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver on Society
- I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
- Zoe Saldana on Society
- I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.
- Jarvis Cocker on Society
- I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
- Elijah Wood on Society
- I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
- Serj Tankian on Society
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