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When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Freedom
Dignity
Denial
Collective
Own
Society
Our
Both
Individual
Self-Denial
Vulnerable
Becomes
Deny
Human
Human Dignity
Poor
Capacity
Choice
Levels
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun
Work
Knowledge
Intelligence
World
Mind
Wicked
Society
Addition
Aims
Impart
Only
Take
Develop
Share
Perhaps
Schooling
Schools
Hand
Intended
Improving
Done
After
Lend
Social
Prepare
Two
The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.
Jaden Smith
You
Change
Society
Way
Something
Only
Shock
Want
Them
Your
Grow
Muscles
We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.
James Comey
Myth
Society
Our
Wrong
Brave
Afraid
Being
Being Afraid
Means
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly
Society
Female
Worker
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Slave
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
James Earl Jones
Family
You
People
Problems
Important
Think
Society
Enough
Fathers
Be Real
Both
Know
Because
Mothers
Real
Lot
Children
Acknowledge
Who
Present
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Jan Koum
You
Trouble
Society
Everything
Kids
Telling
Anecdotes
About
Recorded
Had
Leaders
Were
Up
Friends
Did
Getting
Where
Grew
Communist
The transgender community has always been a part of Hawaiian society, where people who don't conform to the binary system of man/woman, masculine/feminine are accepted or, at minimum, tolerated.
Janet Mock
People
Binary
Transgender
Community
Society
System
Minimum
Hawaiian
Part
Accepted
Always
Been
Where
Conform
Who
Tolerated
Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society is capable of treating us equally, then we can and will live authentically.
Jazz Jennings
People
Progress
Will
Transgender
Live
Society
Out
Open
Open Society
Individuals
Also
Accept
Equally
Truly
Just
Being
Happen
Capable
Then
Us
Treating
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere
Wise
Fear
Society
Bored
Wise Person
Person
Often
Being
Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
Jeremy Corbyn
Diversity
Society
Intrinsic
Something
Democratic
Democratic Society
Person
Owned
Want
Whole
Media
We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.
Jessica Chastain
Society
Our
Weakness
Some
Understand
Femininity
Reason
Two
Need
It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.
Jessica Simpson
Women
Made
Mirror
Believe
Society
Feel
Fair
Look
Because
Disgust
Not Fair
Them
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Solitude
Society
Only
Inspired
Instructed
To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.
John Eccles
Appreciation
World
Better
Problems
Will
Men
Understanding
Society
Our
Ourselves
Fact
Better Understanding
Fellow
Fellow Men
Brain
In Fact
Richer
Whole
Extent
Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.
John Mackey
Capitalism
Creative
Progress
Free
Perception
Society
System
Distorted
Enterprise
Has-Been
Free Enterprise
Powerful
Conceived
Most
Most Powerful
Been
Role
Human
Social
Human Progress
Cooperation
Ever
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain
Political
Values
Collective
Free
Free Society
Few
Society
Our
Dare
Embedded
Collective Consciousness
Threaten
Only
Generally
Them
Ever
Deeply
Lunatics
Consciousness
Core
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
John Perry Barlow
You
Culture
Ethics
Society
Our
More
Could
Know
Obtained
Unwritten
Provide
Than
Any
Order
Your
Codes
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
John Ralston Saul
Freedom
Nature
Society
Our
Exaltation
Part
Exercise
Limited
Integral
Integral Part
Humanism
Need
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner
People
Some People
Society
Kind
Some
Just
Being
Strengthen
When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.
Joseph Stiglitz
Good
You
Together
Society
Divided
Investments
Highly
Come
Make
Common
Common Good
Hard
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
Judy Collins
Fight
Down
Society
Suicide
Criminals
Recovery
Part
Come
Like
Terrible
Around
Demons
Method
Were
Been
Off
Legacy
Handling
Hanging
Centuries
Many
Now
Treated
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
K. D. Lang
Youth
Women
Think
Society
Kind
Sexuality
About
Road
Combination
Make
Intellect
Image
In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.
Kangana Ranaut
Funny
Director
Woman
Queen
Society
Our
Furious
Danger
See
About
Props
Vulgar
Said
Bra
Moment
Film
Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
Kapil Sibal
Good
Nothing
Society
Embrace
Good Thing
Cleanliness
He
Implement
Nor
Which
Should
Thing
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
Karen Armstrong
Religion
Secular
Islam
Every
Society
Christianity
Liberal
Visceral
Out
Some
Gut
Wipe
Studied
Judaism
Movement
Wants
Convinced
Level
Fundamentalist
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