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Society Quotes
"Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity."
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"She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was."
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"You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course."
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"Mr. Boy Scout was not for her. He was exactly the type of man her family would expect her to settle down with. Freaking perfect."
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"People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves."
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"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
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"A man is not known by what he wears but only when the society undresses him."
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"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
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"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration."
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"They wanted to stick her on a spit and roast her --- after doing some horrible things to her."
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"Statism ends with an eye roll."
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"Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt."
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"Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity."
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"Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!"
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"To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory."
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"Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life."
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"He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him."
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"In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow."
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"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."
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"As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution."
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"It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God."
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"A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell or two. Each time this happens I find myself thinking, "Is it possible that human beings can continue with this lunacy very much longer?" You know the answer, of course."
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"Civilization is a race between disaster and education."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."
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"Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a way of solving conflict. It wasn't about biology, but experience."
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"A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all."
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"No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn."
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"They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice."
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"Conflict is much the same, injustice and inequality is nothing new to our generation only the contest has changed because not only that everyone has opinion but they also have an opportunity to voice it and that is a bit dangerous."
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"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave."
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"We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?"
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"But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA."
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"Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society."
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"When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight."
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"Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector."
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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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