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"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."

Martha Beck on Society

More quotes about Society

  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Martha Beck

  • "We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster."

  • "Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."

  • "No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone."

  • "Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation."

  • "Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be."

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