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Society Quotes
"The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success)."
140
"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!"
102
"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."
102
"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."
85
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
78
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
78
"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."
72
"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
70
"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."
69
"Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people."
66
"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."
65
"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
64
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
63
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
63
"What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?"
63
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."
62
"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
61
"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."
60
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
59
"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
58
"In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes."
58
"Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows."
58
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
58
"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."
57
"Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed."
56
"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."
56
"Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed."
56
"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
54
"So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one."
54
"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."
54
"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."
53
"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
52
"We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom."
51
"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."
50
"Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."
49
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."
49
"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."
49
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