#societies

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. ↗

— Cotton Mather

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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

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You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change. ↗

— David Miliband

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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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