Society Quotes
356 Society quotes:
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
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"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
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"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
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"Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that."
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"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
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"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."
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"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
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"Wouldn't it be nice to be like men, just getting notches in your belt, having affairs with the most atttractive men . . . and not getting emotionally involved."
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"I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for."
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"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."
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Status Quotes
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"(Bias against the Negro) is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers."
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Racism Quotes
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"I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other."
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"I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me."
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"Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle."
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"You would think all other women kept their bodies in vaults."
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"A photographer once told me that my two best points are between my waist and my neck."
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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
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