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Society Quotes
"Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!"
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"Latinos must be proud. We have the same rights in the U.S. as anybody else. Instead of crying and getting upset about visa problems and having our families come join us, go fight for your rights. Make yourself a productive individual in the society."
49
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
48
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
41
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
40
"Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation."
39
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
36
"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
36
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."
35
"But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities."
34
"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
33
"In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes."
33
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
33
"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
32
"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."
32
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
32
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
31
"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance."
31
"Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed."
31
"There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences."
31
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
30
"Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."
30
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
30
"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
29
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
29
"But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society."
28
"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
27
"This is the century of fear."
27
"We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities."
26
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
25
"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"
25
"Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how."
24
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
24
"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."
24
"Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you."
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