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Society Quotes
"America faces a new race that has awakened."
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"The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat."
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"We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs."
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"Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society."
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"The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society."
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"What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy."
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"We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters."
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"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."
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"It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible."
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"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
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"We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced."
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"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."
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"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression."
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"On school uniforms Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German."
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"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society."
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"We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended."
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"Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor."
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"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
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"There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich."
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"I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society."
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"The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century."
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"... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'People who enjoyed 'picking-up' things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit and loss, and nourished ideals of honour and love, she placed in a class by themselves, superior to the rest of humanity."
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"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
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"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."
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"All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens."
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"When the subject turns to abortion, cosmetic intervention, birth, motherhood, sex, love, work, misogyny, fear, or just how you feel in your own skin, women still won't often tell the truth to each other unless they are very, very drunk. Perhaps the endlessly reported rise in female binge-drinking is simply modern women's attempt to communicate with each other. Or maybe it is because Sancerre is so very delicious. To be honest, I'll take bets on either."
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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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"When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others."
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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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"Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large."
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