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~ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ~

Frederick Douglass

~ Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. ~

Helen Caldicott

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

Unknown

~ I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society ~

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

~ The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society ~

Shirley Mount Hufstedler

~ A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom ~

Milton Friedman

~ We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. ~

Mead, Margaret

~ The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. ~

Dietrick Bonhoeffer

~ Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ~

Pope John Paul II

~ We won't have a society if we destroy the environment ~

Margaret Mead

~ Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society. ~

Daniel Webster

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

Carl Jung

~ History in our kind of society is not a luxury but a necessity. ~

Patrick Hazard

~ Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. ~

Mao Tse-Tung

~ It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. ~

Erma Bombeck

~ Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement. ~

Marvin Weisbord

~ Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. ~

Evelyn Cunningham

~ The common dogma is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity ~

G Gaia

~ When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ~

Bayard Rustin

~ Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. ~

Aneurin Bevan

~ A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. ~

Lewis H Lapham

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

Greek proverb

~ A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society ~

Kjell Magne Bondevik

~ Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children ~

M. Meyer

~ Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen. ~

John Muir

~ Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle ~

Pope John Paul II

~ An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single ~

Charlotte Bingham

~ American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ~

Thomas Babington

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