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• We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

  Bill Moyers

  Topics in Children, Society

• We’ve become a plastic society.

  Bill Janklow

  Topics in Society
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  A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

  Topics in Greek Proverbs, Society

  Tags in Plant, Great

• Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

  Paul Bert

  Topics in Religion, Society

• Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

  Paul Berg

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Relationship, Science

• A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man’s advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

  Betty Friedan

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Sex

• Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Communication

• You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

  Frank Deford

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Animals, Need

• I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Choice

• In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

  Frank Dane

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Laughs

• You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It’s not always that way in the West.

  Bernard Lagat

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Help

• We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Children, Nature, Society

  Tags in Playing

• But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Topics in Society

• I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Change

• The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Topics in Achievement, Society

• Serial killing is not about s*x at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  Pat Brown

  Topics in Power, Society

• Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

  Francis Parkman

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Suddenly, Original

• Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

  Tom Stoppard

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Believe

• The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Topics in Failure, Society

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Love, Power, Society