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Quotes About Society

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
~ R. D. Laing
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
~ Albert Camus
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
~ Napoleon Hill
How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
~ Bayard Rustin
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
~ Unknown
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.
~ Shmuley Boteach
The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.
~ Herbert Marcuse
The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.
~ Sunday Adelaja
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
~ Stella Young
In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.
~ Robin Sharma
Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
~ Ethan Hawke
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.
~ Clive Barker
The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!
~ James Monroe
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
~ John Dewey
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
~ John Dewey
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
~ Edmund Barton
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
~ Ivan Illich
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
~ Nelly
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
~ Edmund Barton