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Society

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. – Deepak Chopra

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. – Alex Haley

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. – Ralph Nader

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. – Muhammad Yunus

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. – William Makepeace Thackeray

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. – Emma Goldman

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. – Lyndon B. Johnson

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. – Charles R. Swindoll

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries. – Desmond Tutu

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. – Ben Stein

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. – Terry Pratchett

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. – Pope Paul VI

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. – Tom Stoppard

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. – Stella Adler