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There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
Arlen Specter on society

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch on society

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager on society

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat on society

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
Neil LaBute on society

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Clara Zetkin on society

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer on society

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
William J. Clinton on society

America's a very traumatized society.
Alanis Morissette on society

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Elizabeth Gilbert on society

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
Scott Adams on society

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
Paul Ryan on society

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul Ryan on society

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Friedrich Schiller on society

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush on society

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley on society

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke on society

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
Jon Meacham on society

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte on society

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Sonia Sotomayor on society