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Society

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. – A. J. Liebling

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. – Hugh Kingsmill

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. – Charles de Secondat

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society. – Candace Bushnell

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do. – Abbie Hoffman

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. – Max Cannon

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. – Randolph Bourne

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. – Valerie Solanas

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. – Al Roker

It is good for society to have this introspection. – Jacques Verges

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. – Albert Einstein

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. – Thomas Jefferson

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. – Mahatma Gandhi

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde