I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
- King Abdullah Ii
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
- Harry S Truman
...our society is not divided into "good" and "bad." Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
- Veronica Roth
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
- Felix Alba Juez
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- Paulo Coelho
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
- Barbara Amiel
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
- Barbara Amiel
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
- Adam Ant
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.
- Dan Ariely
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
- Matthew Arnold
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
- Steve Maraboli
The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment.
- Steve Maraboli
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
- Joe Baca
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.
- Spencer Bachus
A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
- James Baldwin
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
- Jan Peter Balkenende
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
- Oscar Wilde
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
- Muriel Barbery
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
The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
- Bo Bennett
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
- Robert Foster Bennett
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.
- Richard Berry
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
- Joe Biden
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
- Tim Bishop
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
- Sara Blakely
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
- Sara Blakely
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
- Michael Bloomberg
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
- Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
- Edward Bond
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
- Lester Bowie
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
- Paul D Boyer
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it's so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?
- John Bradshaw
I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
- Chester Brown
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
- Chili Davis
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
- Pearl S Buck
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
- Warren E Burger
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
- Michael Burgess
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
- Carter Burwell
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
- Jeb Bush
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
- Candace Bushnell
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
- Alex Campbell
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
- Joseph Campbell
It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
- Raymond Chandler
it's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
- Steve Chabot
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.
- Michael Palin
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and
artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never
were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their
fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.
- Stephen King
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
- Shirley Chisholm
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
- Kent Conrad
Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
- Norm Coleman
We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.
- Harry Connick Jr
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
- Howard Cosell
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
- Stanley Crouch
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
- Billy Crudup
This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.
- Celso Cukierkorn
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
- Richard J Daley
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
- Tyne Daly
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
- Richard Dawkins
[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
- Angela Davis
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
- Barbara Deming
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
- Jim Demint
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.
- Helen Dewitt
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
- Jared Diamond
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.
- Philip K Dick
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
- Mary Douglas
Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
- Olusegun Obasanjo
In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man You have no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
- Charles Edison
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
- Atom Egoyan
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
- Michael Fassbender
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.
- James E Faust
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society...unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
- Tina Fey
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
- Dorothy Fields
a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
- Shulamith Firestone
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
- Pervez Musharraf
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
- Michel Foucault
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
- John Wooden
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
- Milton Friedman
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
- Rollo May
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]
- Northrop Frye
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
- Carlos Fuentes
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
- Carlos Fuentes
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
- Barack Obama
...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
- Seth Godin
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
- Seth Godin
I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.
- Alberto Gonzales
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
- Lyndon B Johnson
Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
- Roger Goodell
The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
- Andrew Goodman
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
- Tipper Gore
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
- Billy Graham
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
- Billy Graham
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
- Lee Greenwood
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
- Alex Haley
I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.
- Nhat Hanh
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
- Nhat Hanh
During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.
The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting.
- Nhat Hanh
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.
- Sam Harris
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.
- Sam Harris
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
- Orrin Hatch
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
- Ethan Hawke
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
- Gustav Heinemann
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
- J K Rowling
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
- Thor Heyerdahl
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
- Anita Hill
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
- James Hillman
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another's virtues more than we speak of one another's faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.
- Gordon B Hinckley
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition.
- Bell Hooks
Since our society continues to be primarily a "Christian" culture masses of people continue to believe that god has ordained that women be subordinate to men in the domestic household.
- Bell Hooks
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
- J Edgar Hoover
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
- Saddam Hussein
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
- Henrik Ibsen
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
- Ernest Istook
Because there's nothing wrong with me," Alec says. "You know what is? Our society is so screwed up from top to bottom, everything about it, that it's become impossible to fix. It's easier to change people and make them fit into something that's broken. Know what I mean?
- Brian James
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
- Joseph Jarman
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
- Bobby Jindal
What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
- Barbara Jordan
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
- June Jordan
Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
- Joyce Meyer
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.
- Theodore Kaczynski
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
- John Kasich
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
- Irving R Kaufman
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
- Philip Kaufman
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
- Mark Kelly
Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.
- Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
To me, the best zombie movies aren't the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society... and our society's station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too... but there's always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.
- Robert Kirkman
Submitting to history allows us to remember our society's past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us striving for an improved future.
- K P Kollenborn
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
- Ted Koppel
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
- Polykarp Kusch
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
- Guy Laliberte
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
- Christopher Lasch
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
- Christopher Lasch
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
- Christopher Lasch
StupidityThe top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.
- Anton Lavey
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
- Bill Lee
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
- Harper Lee
In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
- Gerald F Lieberman
When we consider further the social and psychological roots of the collective urge to kill the world, we are likely to see more of ourselves in it and to begin to think of such groups as something of a dark "cultural underground" of our own society. We are also likely to discover that whatever renders our society more decent and more inclusive in its benefits is likely to undermine the totalistic impulse to destroy everything.
- Robert Jay Lifton
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
- Judith Light
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
- Blanche Lincoln
Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.
- David Lloyd
I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families.
- Joan Lunden
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
- Ken Macleod
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
- John Madden
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
- Miriam Makeba
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
- David Mamet
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.
- Alberto Manguel
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
- Marya Mannes
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're 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
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
- Thom Mayne
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
- Mary Mcaleese
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
- Jenny Mccarthy
There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.
- Mike Mccurry
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.
- Bill Mckibben
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.
- Joe Meno
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
- Jeff Miller
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
- Keith Miller
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
- Alan Mollohan
It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
- Luc Montagnier
But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.
- Kathleen Norris
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.
- Gwen Moore
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
- Greg Mortenson
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
- Jose Mourinho
I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
- Frank Murphy
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
- Janet Napolitano
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
- Michael Newdow
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
- Michael Newdow
In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
- Bob Ney
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.
- Henri Nouwen
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
- Ted Olson
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
- Emmuska Orczy
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
- Joel Osteen
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
- Major R Owens
In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
- Major R Owens
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
- Larry Page
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 we're sure of.
- Vidal Sassoon
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
- Rand Paul
I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.
- Nancy Pearl
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
- Lester B Pearson
I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely wrong. I also came to believe that the war on drugs is one of the last vestiges of institutionalized racism in our society.
- Harvey Pekar
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
- Rick Perry
Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren't even really about your body, they're about society and our society's wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a "good" body. Your body didn't do anything wrong. What's fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body.
- Golda Poretsky
The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.
- Jon Porter
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
- Colin Powell
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color 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.
- Joseph Priestley
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
- Zachary Quinto
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
- Zachary Quinto
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
- Timothy Radcliffe
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
- Charles Rangel
- King Abdullah Ii
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
- Harry S Truman
...our society is not divided into "good" and "bad." Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
- Veronica Roth
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
- Felix Alba Juez
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- Paulo Coelho
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
- Barbara Amiel
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
- Barbara Amiel
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
- Adam Ant
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.
- Dan Ariely
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
- Matthew Arnold
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
- Steve Maraboli
The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment.
- Steve Maraboli
As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.
- Joe Baca
You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.
- Spencer Bachus
A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
- James Baldwin
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
- Jan Peter Balkenende
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
- Oscar Wilde
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
- Muriel Barbery
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
The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
- Bo Bennett
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.
- Robert Foster Bennett
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.
- Richard Berry
We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
- Joe Biden
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
- Tim Bishop
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
- Sara Blakely
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
- Sara Blakely
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
- Michael Bloomberg
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
- Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
- Edward Bond
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
- Lester Bowie
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
- Paul D Boyer
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it's so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?
- John Bradshaw
I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
- Chester Brown
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
- Chili Davis
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
- Pearl S Buck
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
- Warren E Burger
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
- Michael Burgess
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
- Carter Burwell
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
- Jeb Bush
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
- Candace Bushnell
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
- Alex Campbell
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
- Joseph Campbell
It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
- Raymond Chandler
it's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
- Steve Chabot
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.
- Michael Palin
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and
artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never
were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their
fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.
- Stephen King
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
- Shirley Chisholm
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
- Kent Conrad
Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
- Norm Coleman
We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.
- Harry Connick Jr
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
- Howard Cosell
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
- Stanley Crouch
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
- Billy Crudup
This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.
- Celso Cukierkorn
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
- Richard J Daley
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.
- Tyne Daly
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
- Richard Dawkins
[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
- Angela Davis
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
- Barbara Deming
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
- Jim Demint
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.
- Helen Dewitt
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
- Jared Diamond
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.
- Philip K Dick
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
- Mary Douglas
Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
- Olusegun Obasanjo
In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man You have no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
- Charles Edison
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
- Atom Egoyan
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
- Michael Fassbender
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.
- James E Faust
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society...unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
- Tina Fey
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
- Dorothy Fields
a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
- Shulamith Firestone
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
- Pervez Musharraf
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
- Michel Foucault
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
- John Wooden
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
- Milton Friedman
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
- Rollo May
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]
- Northrop Frye
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
- Carlos Fuentes
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
- Carlos Fuentes
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
- Barack Obama
...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
- Seth Godin
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
- Seth Godin
I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.
- Alberto Gonzales
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
- Lyndon B Johnson
Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
- Roger Goodell
The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.
- Andrew Goodman
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
- Tipper Gore
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
- Billy Graham
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
- Billy Graham
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
- Lee Greenwood
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
- Alex Haley
I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.
- Nhat Hanh
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.
- Nhat Hanh
During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.
The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting.
- Nhat Hanh
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.
- Sam Harris
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.
- Sam Harris
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
- Orrin Hatch
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
- Ethan Hawke
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
- Gustav Heinemann
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
- J K Rowling
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
- Thor Heyerdahl
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
- Anita Hill
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
- James Hillman
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another's virtues more than we speak of one another's faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.
- Gordon B Hinckley
The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our 'natural' condition.
- Bell Hooks
Since our society continues to be primarily a "Christian" culture masses of people continue to believe that god has ordained that women be subordinate to men in the domestic household.
- Bell Hooks
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
- J Edgar Hoover
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
- Saddam Hussein
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
- Henrik Ibsen
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
- Ernest Istook
Because there's nothing wrong with me," Alec says. "You know what is? Our society is so screwed up from top to bottom, everything about it, that it's become impossible to fix. It's easier to change people and make them fit into something that's broken. Know what I mean?
- Brian James
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
- Joseph Jarman
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
- Bobby Jindal
What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
- Barbara Jordan
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
- June Jordan
Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.
- Joyce Meyer
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.
- Theodore Kaczynski
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
- John Kasich
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
- Irving R Kaufman
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
- Philip Kaufman
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.
- Mark Kelly
Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.
- Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
To me, the best zombie movies aren't the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society... and our society's station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too... but there's always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.
- Robert Kirkman
Submitting to history allows us to remember our society's past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us striving for an improved future.
- K P Kollenborn
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
- Ted Koppel
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
- Polykarp Kusch
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
- Guy Laliberte
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
- Christopher Lasch
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
- Christopher Lasch
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
- Christopher Lasch
StupidityThe top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.
- Anton Lavey
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
- Bill Lee
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
- Harper Lee
In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
- Gerald F Lieberman
When we consider further the social and psychological roots of the collective urge to kill the world, we are likely to see more of ourselves in it and to begin to think of such groups as something of a dark "cultural underground" of our own society. We are also likely to discover that whatever renders our society more decent and more inclusive in its benefits is likely to undermine the totalistic impulse to destroy everything.
- Robert Jay Lifton
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
- Judith Light
We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
- Blanche Lincoln
Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.
- David Lloyd
I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. And I think that if insurance will cover Viagra for men, it should also be covering these kinds of methods to try to build families.
- Joan Lunden
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
- Ken Macleod
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
- John Madden
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
- Miriam Makeba
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
- David Mamet
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.
- Alberto Manguel
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
- Marya Mannes
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're 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
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
- Thom Mayne
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
- Mary Mcaleese
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
- Jenny Mccarthy
There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.
- Mike Mccurry
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.
- Bill Mckibben
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.
- Joe Meno
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
- Jeff Miller
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
- Keith Miller
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
- Alan Mollohan
It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
- Luc Montagnier
But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.
- Kathleen Norris
As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.
- Gwen Moore
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
- Greg Mortenson
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
- Jose Mourinho
I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
- Frank Murphy
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.
- Janet Napolitano
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
- Michael Newdow
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
- Michael Newdow
In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
- Bob Ney
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.
- Henri Nouwen
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
- Ted Olson
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
- Emmuska Orczy
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
- Joel Osteen
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
- Major R Owens
In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
- Major R Owens
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
- Larry Page
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 we're sure of.
- Vidal Sassoon
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
- Rand Paul
I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.
- Nancy Pearl
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
- Lester B Pearson
I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely wrong. I also came to believe that the war on drugs is one of the last vestiges of institutionalized racism in our society.
- Harvey Pekar
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
- Rick Perry
Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren't even really about your body, they're about society and our society's wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a "good" body. Your body didn't do anything wrong. What's fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body.
- Golda Poretsky
The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.
- Jon Porter
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
- Colin Powell
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color 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.
- Joseph Priestley
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
- Zachary Quinto
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
- Zachary Quinto
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
- Timothy Radcliffe
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
- Charles Rangel
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