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Society Quotes
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
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"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"
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"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful."
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
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"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
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"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."
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"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
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"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
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"Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state."
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"The junkies had themselves a field day, they didn't care for the safety of the overseas tourists, no sir. They would stop at nothing. Some tourists were left bloodied and battered on the sacred ground of the Wallace Monument, minus their video cameras and the likes. The camera's were soon sold to a fence in the Raploch for pennies, compared to the actual price it was worth, then the junkies didn't waste much time getting to Big Mags' door with the £20 that they had got from the local fence in the nearby neighbourhood."
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"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
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"Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars."
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"I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them."
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"There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight."
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"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
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"A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate."
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"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
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"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
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"Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society."
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"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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"They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers that they plan to enthrone forever in history through a variety of memberships and numerous prizes awarded under the influence of top bureaucrats who know everything, not only about literature, but also about secret conspiracies, the Masons that lurk in every corner to crucify someone, steal someone's soul and sell it to an unknown devil, about whom only the chief bureaucrat possesses secret knowledge that he doesn't share; about history, ghosts, missing continents; about who said what to whom in confidence."
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"We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few."
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"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own."
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
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"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."
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"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important."
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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
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"We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted."
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"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
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