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Society Quotes
"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."
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"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
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"The best gift that we could give to our great nation is to prepare our younger generations to be fit enough to positively take our country to greater heights."
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"Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans."
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"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career."
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"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."
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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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"Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on."
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"Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery."
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"Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking."
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"A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets."
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"The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream."
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"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
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"The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society."
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"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
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"For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election."
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"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."
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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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"The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society."
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"This isn't a little debate society. That's high school stuff."
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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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"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."
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"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."
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"The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war."
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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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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
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"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."
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"I think pornography is a scourge on society."
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"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."
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"If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society."
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"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."
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"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa."
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"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
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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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"You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from."
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