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“An inspired, concerned and loving society will dignify man; will find the ways to develop his talent; will put the fruits of his labor and intellect to effective use; will achieve brotherhood; eliminate bigotry and intolerance; will care for the indigent, the delinquent, the sick, the aged; seek the truth and communicate it; respect differences among man.”
James Rouse
“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority”
Henrik Ibsen
“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.”
George F. Will
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death”
Gore Vidal
“Solitude is often the best society”
Proverb
“Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. ”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted”
Maya Angelou
“A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.”
Stella Adler
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution”
Mahatma Gandhi
