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The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.
If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.
So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.
Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.
If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
Jealousy is a human emotion, regardless of whether you're a Branch Davidian or you're whomever, outside in society.
It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.