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Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
Louis Althusser on society

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
Benjamin Carson on society

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
Benjamin Carson on society

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
George McGovern on society

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
George McGovern on society

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell on society

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Barbra Streisand on society

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
Lauryn Hill on society

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.
Lauryn Hill on society

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard on society

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky on society

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida on society

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann on society

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
Ai Weiwei on society

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Michel Foucault on society

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
Phil McGraw on society

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen on society

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
Christopher Lasch on society

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
Christopher Lasch on society

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Jo Brand on society