Society
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
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.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No — no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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