“I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.”
— Leland Stanford
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“Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.”
— Arabella Weir
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“Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.”
— Karen Armstrong
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“If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.”
— Lewis Thomas
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“But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series – though not in exact repetition.”
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
— Vladimir Lenin
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“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
— John Adams
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“Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.”
— Clint Eastwood
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“Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.”
— Preston Manning
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“I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.”
— Barbara Kingsolver
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“Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.”
— David Rockefeller
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