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Society Quotes
"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
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"We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities."
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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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"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
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"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
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"Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows."
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"This is the century of fear."
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"Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how."
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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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"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"
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"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
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"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society."
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"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
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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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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
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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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"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
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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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"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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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
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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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"Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you."
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"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
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"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful " but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."
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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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"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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"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
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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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"As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty " to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
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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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"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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"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
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"We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom."
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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."
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