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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

Society

Nobility

Order

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Tammy Bruce

Society

Progress

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Thomas Browne

Society

Solitude

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

Bryan Brown

Society

America

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

A. Whitney Brown

Society