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“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?” One of many society quotes, this one by Paul Sweeney rings so very true. Society takes many forms, from informal circles based on common interests to entire countries or continents that are bound inextricably by common bonds. By their nature, societies are reflective of the many individuals who inhabit it. Society quotes let us understand the dynamics of a society, and what makes a society great or causes it to fall apart at the seams, either from internal or external forces. Reference.com Definition of Society
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"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." — William M. Thackeray
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Charles Colton

"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values." — Charles Colton
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Oscar Wilde

"Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that." — Oscar Wilde
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"I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchical i" — Adrienne Rich
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Bob Marley

"I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me." — Bob Marley
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"If you can vote more than once, my suggestion in this democratic society is vote early and vote often." — Ron Paulson
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"These graphic images show our society is so uneven, it is so unfair, it is so unjust." — Robert Bullard
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James A. Baldwin

"Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden." — James A. Baldwin
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"I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America." — Robert Stone
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Jaime Pressly

"We're making light of all the serious, politically correct stuff that society has created. Basically, Earl redeems himself (after) the mistakes he has made in judging people." — Jaime Pressly
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Bob Marley

"How much do you smoke? Plenty." — Bob Marley
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"Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn." — Chamfort Chamfort
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"Every society has its values, traditions and inclinations, and that's why the so-called Greater Middle East Initiative initiated by the United States was rejected by all the Arab countries." — Abdullah Hassan
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"I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing." — Ray Charles
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"The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." — Adlai Stevenson
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Edmund Burke

"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." — Edmund Burke
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"The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future." — Mark Potok
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"It is an absolute poison and a scourge on society and it is time to talk about it," — Ralph Klein
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"I have felt the warmth of your society, the welcome given to anyone who comes to be with you, to share and to understand," — Adrienne Clarkson
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Marilyn Monroe

"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." — Marilyn Monroe
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Martin Luther King

"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam." — Martin Luther King
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"Oh well a touch of gray kind of suits you anyway."

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