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What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about destruction, self-control

The Communists are a traitorous bloc in our midst, but if every Communist in America were rounded up and liquidated, the greatest menace to our form of social organization would still be among us.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about communism

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about air, democracy, purity, public, life

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about life

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about democracy, life

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention, capitalism, civilization, stores, being, people

Almost all of the social tragedies occurring around the world today are caused by ignoring the basic biological laws of nature.

Quote by Jim Fowler about nature, world

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Quote by Jim Fowler about security, earth

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about essential, justice, peace

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Quote by Eugen Ionescu about sadness, human imperfections, vice, absolute, pain, society, fear, death

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life

Your social skills will be lacking, if all your anecdotes deal with blood.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, blood

The greater the number of people involved in a social function, the less intelligent each of the participants becomes.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about numbers, people

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, it seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

Quote by George Oppen about pointless, old, olderness, people

You had to constantly have your thinking cap on. I had no social life at the time.

Quote by Alan Parsons about fidelity, thinking, time, life, contentment

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about respect, tradition, character

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about society, school

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about history, country, experience

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about politics, interest, problems, contentment

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Quote by Ron Paul about politics, judges, liberty, marriage, people