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Society Quotes
"When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions."
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"The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth."
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"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions."
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"A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations."
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"The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes."
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"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."
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"Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society."
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"What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism."
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"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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"Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any."
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"We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way."
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"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
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"I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society."
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"The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper."
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"There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes."
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"One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change."
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"The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society."
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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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"I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security."
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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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"Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English."
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"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
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"In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world."
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"Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles."
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"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
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"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
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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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"Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility."
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"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
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"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead."
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"Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption."
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"The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values."
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"In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis."
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"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
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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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"I think pornography is a scourge on society."
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"Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society."
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