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Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle
How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
John Gilmore
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
George Eliot
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
Ray Dalio
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Angela Davis
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
Julia Roberts
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.
Simon Mainwaring
Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
Bill Gates
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
John Wooden
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy
