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I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
Elijah Wood
World
Think
Society
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Going
Being
Different
Grain
Against
Being Different
Thing
The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
Elizabeth Thornton
Truth
Best
Good
Truth Is
Whatever
Not Good Enough
Think
Society
Enough
Everything
Top
Hierarchy
About
Mental
Percent
Been
Very
Model
Just
Established
Then
Us
Pervasive
Many
Reinforce
Socialized
Competitive
It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.
Gore Vidal
Freedom
Money
Law
Entrepreneur
Live
Society
Considerable
Paradox
Morals
Allowed
Abuse
Make
Although
Private
Order
Which
Public
Use
Now
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
Truth
Freedom
Enemy
Society
Our
Worst
Majority
Compact
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
Hugh Hefner
You
Society
Peers
Define
Your
Less
Who
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover
Money
Society
Our
Seeks
Almost
Attraction
Unearned
Irresistible
Banks
Which
Element
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Johann Most
Property
Society
Anarchist
Seeks
He
Sharing
Himself
Calls
Conditions
Revolutionary
Whether
Social
Social Conditions
Communist
Who
Based
Present
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt
Education
Knowledge
Liberty
Law
Public Education
Society
Diffusion
Rule
Rule Of Law
Shadow
Dependent
Public
Stand
Who
Jefferson
Believed
Founded
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault
Strength
Power
Situation
Society
Complex
Neither
Structure
Name
Particular
Institution
Attributes
Endowed
Certain
The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz
You
Yourself
Little Things
Obey
Value
Big
Think
Society
Those
Must
Determine
How
Any
Big Things
Anyone
Little
Choose
Things
Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
Oprah Winfrey
Heart
Job
Parents
Society
Say
Says
Out
Calling
Led
Just
Your
Teachers
Figure
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.
Robert Reich
Society
Civilized
Civilized Society
Hallmark
Bullies
Up
Standing
Standing Up
Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
Samora Machel
History
Struggle
Generation
Will
Important
Build
Revolution
Society
Our
Our Generation
Record
Mentality
New
Armed
Most
Principal
Understand
How
Contribution
Done
Essential
The Most Important
Turn
Realized
Create
Things
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
Stokely Carmichael
First
Before
Group
Society
Enter
Ranks
Must
Open
Open Society
Close
Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
Victor Pinchuk
Challenges
Society
Solving
Understand
Contribute
Them
Businessmen
Need
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
Zachary Quinto
Needs
Gay
Equality
Citizen
Country
Lesbian
Every
Society
Our
Bisexual
Recognize
Civil
Toward
Unstoppable
Unequivocal
Momentum
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Respect
Benefits
Opportunity
Responsibility
Gender
Society
Earn
Ability
Advancement
Climate
May
Regardless
Which
Race
Persons
Whole
Based
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Simple
Mind
Single
Society
Lust
Part
Doctrine
Terrorists
Answers
Left
Confined
Decree
Who
Many
Right
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
Abbe Pierre
You
Thought
Become
Society
Those
Superfluous
General
Only
Givers
Were
Question
Beggars
Place
Asked
Who
Now
Needed
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
Adrienne Clarkson
You
Will
Glorious
Creation
Society
Added
Our
Those
Horizon
Noble
Like
Piece
Conception
Cathedrals
Builder
Artful
Stone
Which
Your
Medieval
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus
Creative
Society
Only
Production
Productive
Based
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
Albert Camus
Law
Innocent
Victim
Society
Innocence
Other
Claim
Guilty
Must
Only
Lay
Absolutely
Retaliation
Individuals
Between
Primitive
Supposed
Operate
Sure
Question
Represent
Short
Form
Note
Cut
Even
Whom
Two
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas
Community
Society
Progressive
Way
About
Results
Journalism
Most
Affecting
Your
I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.
Ann Curry
Me
People
Political
Political Power
Try
Power
Think
Society
Way
About
Voice
Drives
Make
Make A Difference
Overlooked
Affect
Hear
Difference
Stories
Who
Need
For the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhian socialism is what we want to achieve and make society free of exploitation and full of opportunities.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Socialism
Opportunities
Achieve
Free
Party
Exploitation
Society
Make
Want
Full
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B. R. Ambedkar
Government
Man
Political
Tyranny
Politician
Nothing
Society
More
Courageous
Than
Reformer
Social
Who
Compared
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