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Quotes About Society

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all together, irrespective of their color.
~ Malcolm X
Who taught you to hate yourself?
~ Malcolm X
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.
~ Anna Quindlen
A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Material poverty doesn't causemurder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does.
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
We can't continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition.
~ Steve Maraboli
Being sick successfully is not included in society's panoply of worthy goals.
~ Kaimana Wolff, Broken Sleep
Don't let societies perceptions and opinions define who you are as a person. Where is it written that you cannot be great at more than one thing?
~ Nyki Mack
Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.
~ Testy McTesterson
The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success.
~ Sunday Adelaja
One woman's definition of success may not be another's. Is success, as the world defines it, an accomplishment in a society this sick?
~ Donna Lynn Hope
He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.
~ Auliq Ice
We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.
~ Vishwas Chavan
Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
~ Celia Green
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
~ Oscar Wilde
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
~ Baroness Orczy
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
~ Oscar Wilde
I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes
~ Rawi Hage, Carnival
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
~ Michel Foucault
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
~ Helen Caldicott