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Society Quotes
"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment."
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"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
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"I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society."
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"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."
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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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"What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact."
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"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."
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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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"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
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"I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again."
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"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
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"Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so."
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"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
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"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
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"The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer."
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"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."
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"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."
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"There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction."
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"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
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"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."
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"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature."
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"It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences."
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"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
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"The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it."
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"Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity."
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"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."
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"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."
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"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
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"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent."
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"We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished."
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"Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And - how many of us do know it?"
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"Men's economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support-all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her. She thus has to be described first as men dream of her since her being-for-men is one of the essential factors of her concrete condition."
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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
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"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
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"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."
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"Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent crime. Violence requires all different kinds of energy, and most drug addicts like to expend their energy not on their professional crime but on what their professional crime lets them afford. Drug addicts are often burglars, therefore."
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"Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious."
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"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
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"The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well."
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