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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
There is firm support in the Swedish society for the United Nations and, of course, for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.
Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Blockchain's a very interesting technology that will have some very profound applications for society over the years to come.
Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred with dollars or credit card.
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.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.