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«Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.»
«Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.»
«People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society»
Author: Michael Harrington
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
People,
Poverty,
Society
| Keywords:
cripples, everyone else, races, sensitive
«Responsive leaders prefer knowledge and information to be spread as widely as possible among the population, because an informed public is necessary to govern effectively, independent thought produces original ideas and is the key factor by which we progress as a society. When independent thought is stifled society is and will remain stagnant until it is free to flourish once again.»
«Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.»
«Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Individuality,
Reality,
Society
| Keywords:
are, concept, exists, Get Real, individuals, In the, mental, only, Other Worlds, Out of This World, real, Real Me, real world, society, take over the world, their world, there, There are, There exist, The Other World, The Real World, the world to come, world
«Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
codified, codifying, decreeing, decrees, destroying, do away with, inferior, inferiority, superiority
«Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.»
«Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
flat, grind, in some way
«Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.»
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