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Society Quotes
"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
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"We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior."
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"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."
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"The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative."
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"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
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"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
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"If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world."
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"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
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"I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again."
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"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give."
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"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."
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"We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives."
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"I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society."
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"Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands."
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"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."
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"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
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"It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities."
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"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
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"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
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"The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges."
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"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
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"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."
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"If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?"
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"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing."
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"There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps."
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"Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions."
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
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"What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way."
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"A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated."
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"It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too."
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"It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.''That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.''Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things."
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