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"I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person."
Quote by -Dean Smith
“How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“If swindling pays, then it will not stop. [...] you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In a nation distracted by faction, there are, no doubt, always a few, though commonly but a very few, who preserve their judgment untainted by the general contagion. They seldom amount to more than, here and there, a solitary individual, without any influence, excluded, by his own candour, from the confidence of either party, and who, though he may be one of the wisest, is necessarily, upon that very account, one of the most insignificant men in the society.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstain from robbing and murdering one another. So beneficence is less essential than justice is to the existence of society; a lack of beneficence will make a society uncomfortable, but the prevalence of injustice will utterly destroy it.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The first duty of the sovereign [is] that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, [which] can be performed only by means of a military force”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“what is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“though the interest of the labourer is strictly connected with that of the society, he is incapable either of comprehending that interest, or of understanding its connexion with his own. His condition leaves him no time to receive the necessary information, and his education and habits are commonly such as to render him unfit to judge, even though he was fully informed. In the public deliberations, therefore, his voice is little heard, and less regarded; except upon particular occasions, when his clamour is animated, set on, and supported by his employers, not for his, but their own particular purposes.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“We see frequently societies of merchants in London, and other trading towns, purchase waste lands in our sugar colonies, which they expect to improve and cultivate with profit, by means of factors and agents, notwithstanding the great distance and the uncertain returns, from the defective administration of justice in those countries.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least . . . abstain from robbing and murdering one another.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Human society, when we contemplate it in a certain abstract and philosophical light, appears like a great, an immense machine.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. The labour, too, which is necessary to produce any one complete manufacture is almost always divided among a great number of hands. How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures from the growers of the flax and the wool, to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen, or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth!”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, at any time, it has unfortunately lost it; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper, which is so necessary to self-satisfaction and enjoyment.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable—the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears. So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance,”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation."
Quote by -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
Quote by -William Seward
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
Quote by -Virginia Satir
Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.
Quote by -Virginia Satir
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
Quote by -Thomas Aquinas
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Quote by -Tony Benn
The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
Quote by -Tony Benn
I am who I am by choice. Society rejects me because I'm different; I reject society because they're all the same.
Quote by -Travis Barker
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
Quote by -Salman Rushdie
Divorce is marital welfare.It’s just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn’t do enough research before they got married.
Quote by -Stephen Colbert
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken
I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?
Quote by -Jordan Peterson
Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.
Quote by -Leon Trotsky
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
Quote by -Milton Friedman