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Society Quotes
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
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"In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis."
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"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."
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"Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private."
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"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
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"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."
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"No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ."
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"What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress."
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"People will Keep Digging in Your Past to find Reasons to convince themselves of letting you go."
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"The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it."
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"I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping."
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"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
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"What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices."
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"Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us."
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"The ramifications of workplace violence can have a lingering effect on the organization for generations."
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"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"
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"It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?"
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"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
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"Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men."
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"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."
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"A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous."
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"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"
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"What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics."
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"The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundred centuries and a billion minds; and one mind must not expect to comprehend them in one lifetime, much less in twenty years."
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"In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime."
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"I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many 'culturally-mandated' differences. In First World countries we've evolved beyond mere biology -it isn't the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies."
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"It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood."
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"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."
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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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"An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end."
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"When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be full of drama."
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"The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory."
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