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Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society. -- Urvashi Vaid
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. -- Deepak Chopra
In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth. -- Julian Assange
We all have a responsibility to create a just society -- Bryan Stevenson
Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society. -- Justin Trudeau
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. -- Confucius
We will have a more just society as soon as we want one. -- George Packer
The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men. -- Pierre Trudeau
Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society. -- Yuri Kochiyama
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago. -- Pierre Trudeau
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals. -- B. W. Powe
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. -- John Lydon
I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world. -- Pierre Trudeau
For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society -- Nelson Mandela
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life. -- Norris Henderson
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place. -- John Rawls
Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. -- Tom Stoppard
It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable. -- Sydney J. Harris
I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens. -- Marcy Kaptur
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice. -- Bill Ayers
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside. -- Chris Hayes
Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings. -- Salvatore J. Cordileone
Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled? -- Julie Berry
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Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. -- Pratibha Patil
There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight. -- Aleksandar Hemon
It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant. -- Bernie Sanders
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order -- William J. Brennan
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. -- Jimmy Carter
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. -- David Amram
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. -- Noam Chomsky
A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know. -- John Legend
Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am. -- Sylvester Stallone
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society. -- Lester Bowie
Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad. -- Barbara Park
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. -- Judi Dench
In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics. -- Henry Paulson
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. -- John W. Gardner
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. -- Tao Lin
Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly. -- Ameen Rihani
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. -- Shirley Chisholm
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. -- Edward Bond
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. -- Leah Ward Sears
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. -- Karin Slaughter
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. -- Friedrich Schiller
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. -- Annie Lennox
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. -- Tony Benn
FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well. -- Sepp Blatter
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. -- Judith Martin
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. -- Dean Smith
We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society. -- Betty Williams
It's not just modern-day society that is liberal. -- Rob James-Collier
Society needs to evolve just as our DNA does. -- Kat Lahr
A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners. -- Olaf Stapledon
Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories. -- Max Lucado
You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society. -- Desmond Tutu
Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future. -- Erin Gruwell
As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect -- Joao Matod
There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state. -- David Cameron
I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires. -- Anderson Cooper
There's no typical person [addicted to heroin]. It just has permeated every segment of society in Ohio. -- Mike DeWine
The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity. -- M. Russell Ballard
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. -- Jens Stoltenberg
I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people. -- David Adjaye
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. -- Jerry Falwell
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society. -- Barbra Streisand
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world. -- Billie Jean King
As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in. -- Lee Harvey Oswald
I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself. -- Gao Xingjian
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. -- Clay Shirky
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere. -- M.I.A.
And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in. -- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
This is a trust that you just cannot find in modern society for there are no conditions to forge it. -- Chris Matakas
Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die. -- Rebecca McNutt
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I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all. -- Russell T Davies
Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive. -- Jaden Smith
You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone. -- Noam Chomsky
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution. -- Pope Pius X
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. -- Oscar Wilde
The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society. -- Peter Ellyard
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society. -- Daron Acemoglu
We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction. -- Stevie Wonder
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating. -- Dolores Huerta
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. -- Dean Smith
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. -- Douglas Rushkoff
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. -- Al Roker
I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society. -- Luke Ford
We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time. -- Jon Lee Anderson
The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who. -- Keith Ablow
A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way. -- Peter Farb
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre. -- Marina Abramovic
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. -- Stephen Colbert
Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose. -- Neil Turok
We have a responsibility not just as atheletes, but as members of society to treat people well. To do things the right way. -- Alex Rodriguez
I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing. -- Ellar Coltrane
Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear. -- Kate Winslet
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just. -- Jeanne Phillips
It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society. -- Lea DeLaria
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. -- Michel Foucault
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. -- Harry Browne
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. -- Ernest Gaines
I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated. -- Peter Sis
The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become. -- Dan Payne
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. -- Matthew Arnold
Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society. -- Jeremy Bolt
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. -- Jerry Springer
Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other. -- Erin Beresini
There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation. -- James Florio
I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays. -- Jean-Marc Barr
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. -- Carrie P. Meek
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Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy. -- Anita Sarkeesian

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