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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!"
86
"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."
70
"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."
66
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
62
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
57
"You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists."
55
"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."
54
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
54
"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
52
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
50
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
50
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
48
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
47
"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."
46
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
46
"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."
45
"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
44
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
44
"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
44
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."
44
"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."
44
"Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed."
44
"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."
44
"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
43
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
42
"Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."
41
"In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes."
41
"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."
40
"Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community."
39
"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"
38
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
37
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
36
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
36
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
35
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