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Society

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened. – Jack Kevorkian

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. – J. B. Priestley

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term. – Francois Hollande

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. – Naguib Mahfouz

Are we Darwinists – where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support. – Mario Batali

Everything in our society is so purposeful. – Sara Blakely

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. – John Major

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. – Mary Douglas

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. – Paul Wellstone

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. – John Zorn

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. – Larry Niven

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. – Lucy Powell

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands. – Joseph Smith, Jr.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. – Rudolf Arnheim

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. – Robert Casey

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

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. – Margaret Oliphant

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. – Dean Kamen