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Quotes About Society

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
~ Harry Browne
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
~ James F. Cooper
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
~ Natan Sharansky
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
~ Anthony Fauci
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
~ Martin Yan
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
~ E. L. Doctorow
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
~ James Madison
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
~ Hu Shih
It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.
~ Ludwig von Mises
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
~ Bill Nye
The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.
~ Spencer Bachus
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
~ Carrie P. Meek
Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
~ Jacques Attali
The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
~ David Lehman
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
~ Henrik Ibsen
People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
~ Riccardo Tisci
The continued existence of society depends upon private property.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
~ Michel de Montaigne
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
~ Samuel Johnson
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
~ Mahatma Gandhi