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Letter "S" » Society
«A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.»
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Educator)
| About:
Education,
Society
| Keywords:
civil, Civil society
«A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.»
«A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.»
«Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Power,
Society
| Keywords:
corrupts, increases, moral character
«A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
individuals, made-up, original, unendurable
«A nation is only an individual multiplied»
«A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Discipline,
Society
| Keywords:
comparable, counteract, equilibrium, first moment, ordered, rudder, suggestion, well-ordered
«A nation never falls but by suicide»
«A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, doubtful, Eccentricities, eccentricity, Point of, sanity, the point, tolerates, tolerating, to the point
«A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Nations,
Society
| Keywords:
forms, member, moral, personally, responsible, responsible for
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