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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Anne Lamott
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
Kathy Acker
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Bill Gates
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
Arlen Specter
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Allyson Schwartz
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
Herbert Read
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt
Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.
Stephen King
