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Society

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity. – Benjamin Netanyahu

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. – Eliot Spitzer

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit. – Allyson Schwartz

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. – John le Carre

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. – Elijah Wood

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. – Yoko Ono

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. – Arthur C. Clarke

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. – Lewis Mumford

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. – Erica Jong

What is a society without a heroic dimension? – Jean Baudrillard

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves. – Jonathan Sacks

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. – Jonathan Sacks

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. – Jonathan Sacks

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society. – will.i.am

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. – Robert Bork

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children. – Iain Duncan Smith

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society. – Lewis Thomas

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. – Christopher Dawson

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. – John Andrew Holmes