Refinement Series
Society
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Collected Society
Latest AdditionsThere may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.— John Lewis
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.— John Lewis
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The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?— John Lennon
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.— John Lennon
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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
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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
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.— Joe Biden
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Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.— Jim Carrey
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.— James Baldwin
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.— Angela Davis
There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.— Kat Graham
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.— Margo MacDonald
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.— Pope Paul VI
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.— Lee Iacocca
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