Society Quotes

Legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” And this statement stands true for society as well. Society is made of a group of individuals, brought together by a unanimous agreement and functionally interdependent on each other. Society holds people together and influences their conduct with its core values. To know what famous people had to say about society, read the following famous society quotations and sayings.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
Law Marriage
Ben Shapiro

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
People Principles
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
Haughtiness People
Rowan Atkinson

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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Greatness
B. R. Ambedkar

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Men and women are custodians of this society, and we both decide what's going to happen for our future. I feel that very, very strongly.
Men Women Future
Cillian Murphy

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'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.
Time Women Future
Alexis Bledel

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Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.
People Talent Growth
Shinzo Abe

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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson II

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Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it.
Motivation Advice Progress Service
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Time
Alexis de Tocqueville

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Women are the real architects of society.
Women
Cher

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We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.
Jaden Smith

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We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
Martin Sheen

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If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
Denis Villeneuve

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Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.
Hope Flying
Matt Bomer

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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
Strength Lonliness
Dorothy Day

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I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
Future
Jude Law

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It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.
Good People
Stellan Skarsgard

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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
Pamela Anderson

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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Paradox Education
James Baldwin

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So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing. Much of it is not.
Greatness News Information
Robert Kardashian

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At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.
Opportunities
Rupert Murdoch

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What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
Children
Jenny McCarthy

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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
Police
Kurt Russell

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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.
Fear People
Pearl S. Buck

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Solitude Being Alone
Sir Thomas Browne

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I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Love People
Eminem

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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Children Soul
Nelson Mandela

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The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Truth
Anthony Kennedy

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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Growth
Larry Page

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Poverty Justice
Frederick Douglass

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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Nothing
James Baldwin

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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
Charles Bukowski

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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Surroundings Environment
Margaret Mead

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I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
Support World
Edward Snowden

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The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.
College
Pete Buttigieg

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There's always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.
Change
Matt Bomer

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Change World
Isaac Asimov

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Sports are a microcosm of society.
Sports
Billie Jean King

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Soul Education
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Time Law
Ronald Reagan

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Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
Family
Prince Philip

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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
Democracy Value Freedom Home
George Soros

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It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.
Money Wickedness World
David Graeber

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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Good Greatness World
Larry Page

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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
People
John Lennon

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Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it's the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.
Words
Stellan Skarsgard

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I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.
People Reality
Karen Fukuhara

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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Positivity Education Internet
Noam Chomsky

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Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
Good Character Culture
Brendan Fraser

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I think the first duty of society is justice.
Duty Justice
Alexander Hamilton

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Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Respect Responsibility Gender
Sandra Day O'Connor

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People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
Good People Things
John Roberts

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Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Education Equality
Sonia Sotomayor

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It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Love Sadness
Winona Ryder

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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.
Change
Jaden Smith

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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Community Law
Robert Kennedy

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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
Earth
Matt LeBlanc

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We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.
Peace Respect World
Stan Lee

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You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
Personality Words
Michael Fassbender

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

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No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
People Power Medicine Troubles
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Life Education Health
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
Violence
Joe Rogan

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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
Technology World Future
Mark Zuckerberg

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Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.
Perfection
Mila Kunis

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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
People
Marilyn Manson

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In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
Future
Bhagat Singh

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I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.
Respect
Stellan Skarsgard

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Freedom
Vladimir Lenin

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We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.
Jobs
Kurt Russell

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I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
Training Law
Gerard Butler

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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Rest Teachers
Lee Iacocca

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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Culture Future Memory
Elie Wiesel

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Effort Work
Vince Lombardi

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Quality Health
Alexis de Tocqueville

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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Space Conscience Good
Jean Baudrillard

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There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
Opportunities Dreams
John Roberts

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
People Silence Tragedy History
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
People Football
Jose Mourinho

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I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.
People
Keir Starmer

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I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
People
Jude Law

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A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
Gender
Gloria Steinem

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In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
Lord Mountbatten

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I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.
Darkness Excitement
Denis Villeneuve

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We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
Life Children
Justin Trudeau

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You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.
Best Education
Melania Trump

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Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
Poverty Support Dreams
Novak Djokovic

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Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
Business Politics Health
George Soros

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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Music
Ice Cube

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No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
Change Country Government
Joe Biden

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
Children Future
John F. Kennedy

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Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Children
Clint Eastwood

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We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
Edward Snowden

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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
Life Lonliness
B. R. Ambedkar

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You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.
World
Amitabh Bachchan

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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
People
Jack Whitehall

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I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way.
Family
Ilhan Omar

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It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?
Love
Edward Snowden

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Character Power
John Adams

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