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Society

We dont need sugar to live, and we dont need it as a society. – Mehmet Oz

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society – the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and thats what this is. – Alice Cooper

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, its at the bottom. Its the people who are in school systems that dont educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. – Clarence Thomas

Thats why for Zakk Wyldes Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and its white. Theres no in-between. – Zakk Wylde

Whether you think a film will affect society or its plain entertainment, its all excellent, its all noble. – Joaquin Phoenix

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out… I dont believe any more. – Elia Kazan

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a societys democratic values. – Tim Holden

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I dont think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. – Shel Silverstein

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what Ive been good at. – Tom Peters

Even if one is interested only in ones own society, which is ones prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. – Peter L. Berger

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think wed have a better society. – Jeb Bush

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen

When youve paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society. – Tom Vilsack

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that were sure of. – Vidal Sassoon

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

Terms like that, Humane Society, are devised with people like me in mind, who dont care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. – Barbara Kingsolver

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society thats filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. – Don DeLillo

A persons worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. – Kjell Magne Bondevik

Were an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. – James Hillman

My father always taught me to appreciate what youre fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help. – Dan Marino