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Quotes About Society

The striking silence about duties in many contemporary discussions of rights no doubt reflects immense cultural shifts from a world centred on social and ethical duties, to one in which legal requirements and their enforcement by states are seen as fundamental, and in which individuals are commonly seen as having rights – but little is said about their duties.
~ Unknown
If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.
~ Oren Lyons
What we object to is the division of society into two classes, of which one class owns the capital, and the other performs the labor.
~ Unknown
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
~ Oriana Fallaci
In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».
~ Oriana Fallaci
In fondo, per certa gente, la vera colpa di un uomo e di una donna consiste nell'amarsi in un letto
~ Oriana Fallaci
Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
~ Oriana Fallaci
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.
~ Orrin Woodward
Conventional Wisdom" is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.
~ Orrin Woodward
Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.
~ Orrin Woodward
Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.
~ Orrin Woodward
A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.
~ Orrin Woodward
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
~ Orson Scott Card
Law can change how people behave when others are watching that's all.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
~ Orson Scott Card
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
~ Orson Welles
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
~ Orson Welles
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
~ Orson Welles
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
~ Orson Welles
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
~ Orson Welles
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
~ Orson Welles
Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.
~ Os Guinness