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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Tim Robbins
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
Johnny Rotten
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Alex Haley
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Larry Niven
Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.
Sebastian Junger
We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.
Mehmet Oz
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
Sally Ride
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
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
David Ogilvy
Too much of our society looks for people to fail.
Roger Goodell
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
Kenneth L. Pike
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin
