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Society

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole – women and men alike – than the one which involves women as central players. – Kofi Annan

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

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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

We are what make up society. – Tom Shadyac

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society. – Phyllis Schlafly

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. – Serj Tankian

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

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society. – Sandra Lee

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. – Bashar al-Assad

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

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment. – Barry Commoner

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money – they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt. – Yuri Milner

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. – Lee R. Raymond

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. – Kenneth Grahame

Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty. – Sebastian Junger

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. – Christiane Amanpour