“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: society
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“I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.”
— Lech Walesa
Author: Lech Walesa
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“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
— Pope John XXIII
Author: Pope John XXIII
Category: society
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“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
Author: Howard Zinn
Category: society
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“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.”
— Ludwig von Mises
Author: Ludwig von Mises
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“I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.”
— Matt LeBlanc
Author: Matt LeBlanc
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“People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.”
— John Hodgman
Author: John Hodgman
Category: society
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“A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.”
— Joseph Ratzinger
Author: Joseph Ratzinger
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“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
— John F. Kennedy
Author: John F. Kennedy
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“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.”
— Kenneth L. Pike
Author: Kenneth L. Pike
Category: society
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