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• The Society music plays around and over us, but our thoughts are our own.

  Ally Condie

  Topics in Society

• The Society isn’t human, but the people work for it sometimes are.

  Ally Condie

  Topics in Society, Work

• The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

  Iain Pears

  Topics in Society

• People make the rules of society, not God.

  V.C. Andrews

  Topics in God, Society

• Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

  Julia Quinn

  Topics in Society

• The sign of a good society is one that protect its weakest. The strong can always look after themselves.

  Dave Courtney

  Topics in Society

• The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.

  Robert E. Neale

  Topics in Society

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

  Hugh Hefner

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Peers, Define

• As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life; nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

  R. H. Tawney

  Topics in Society

• For too long, society has resembled a pyramid that has been turned upside down and made to rest on its summit. I have replaced it on its base.

  Napoleon III

  Topics in Society

• I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

  Paul Krugman

  Topics in Democracy, Society

  Tags in Institutions, Poverty

• Drama lives on conflict. If you’re trying to deal with social issues seriously, there’s no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

  Michael Haneke

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Avoiding, Issues

• I know of no society in recorded history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

  Sam Harris

  Topics in History, Society

  Tags in Suffered, Reasonable

• Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn’t another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Capitalism, Effect

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if ‘do unto others’ really was a rule.

  Gary Hamel

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Rule, Unto

• Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do…. No guts no glory.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Topics in Society

• In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

  Michel Templet

  Topics in Society

• I don’t think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

  William Hague

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Modern, Principles

• Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Needs, Time

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people’s lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Museums, Architectural