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Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse.

~ George M. Church

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

~ Jimmy Reid

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

~ James Howard Kunstler

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.

~ Vladimir Putin

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

~ Art Buchwald

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

~ Hugh Hefner

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

~ Bashar Al-Assad

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

~ Larry Page

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

~ Denis Villeneuve

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

~ Neil Armstrong

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

~ Robert Frost

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

~ Elie Wiesel

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

~ Jean Cocteau

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

~ Bobby Seale

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

~ B. F. Skinner

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

~ Alice Waters

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

~ Horace Walpole

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

~ Christopher Hitchens

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

~ Bob Kahn

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

~ Mahavira

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

~ Octavio Paz

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.

~ Gloria Steinem

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

~ Jason Priestley

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

~ Annie Lennox

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

~ Adam Carolla

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

~ Michael Porter

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

~ John Lydon

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

~ Bruce Springsteen

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

~ Colin Powell

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

~ Boris Johnson

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

~ Katherine Paterson

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

~ Emily Giffin

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

~ Abbe Pierre

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

~ Irv Kupcinet

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

~ Robert Adams

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

~ Potter Stewart

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

~ Rand Paul

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

~ Tom Hanks

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

~ Marco Rubio