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Jai Ganesh

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Society Quotes

Society Quotes

1. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. - James Baldwin

2. We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. - Ronald Reagan

3. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Aristotle

4. There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. - Nelson Mandela

5. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. - Albert Einstein

6. Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. - Oscar Wilde

7. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith

8. Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. - Karl Marx

9. No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10. In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. - Neil Armstrong

11. There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. - Margaret Thatcher

12. We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

13. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine

14. I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. - Thomas Jefferson

15. Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. - Pearl S. Buck

16. Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. - Montesquieu

17. If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost

18. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy

19. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. - Nelson Mandela

20. Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. - George Orwell

21. Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. - Victor Hugo

22. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. - Kofi Annan

23. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. - Lord Byron

24. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt

25. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

26. Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society. - Janet Jackson

27. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

28. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov

29. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S Truman

30. Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. - Bill Gates.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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