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Society Quotes
"Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws?"
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"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."
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"Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad."
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"We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual."
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"Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood."
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"Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery."
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"Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counter-balanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil."
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"The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents."
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"If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations."
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"Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society."
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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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"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you."
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"What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands."
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"And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer."
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"In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes."
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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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"If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices."
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"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
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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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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
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"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
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"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
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"Australia has an increasingly multicultural society."
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"America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron."
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"We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."
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"But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented."
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"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
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"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."
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"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
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"Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies."
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"The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate."
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"Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible."
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"I mean, all this stuff you're involved in, it's all gossip. It's people talking about each other behind their backs. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. And besides that, it's fucking dorky."
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"Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness."
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"The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries."
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"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."
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"I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society."
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