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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Tim Robbins on society

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
Rick Perry on society

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
Jack Kemp on society

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
Ray Charles on society

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
Jessica Savitch on society

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
Catherine Deneuve on society

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Evelyn Glennie on society

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Doris Lessing on society

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Doris Lessing on society

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Judith Light on society

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
Zachary Quinto on society

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton on society

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Anne Lamott on society

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
Henry Louis Gates on society

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
John Updike on society

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt on society

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
Kesha on society

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
Kesha on society

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
Emma Thompson on society

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
Andrew Cuomo on society