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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Evelyn Glennie
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Elizabeth Gilbert
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
Edgar Quinet
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Anna Deavere Smith
Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.
Gary Bauer
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Johann Most
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
Deepak Chopra
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.
Henning Mankell
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida
On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.
George A. Romero
I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
Mike Tyson
Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
Henry George
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
Paul Ryan
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
