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Society Quotes
"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation."
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"Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come."
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"Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals."
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"That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time, they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle."
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"If we want to survive this economic collapse, new mandatory school subjects should be eCommerce, Chinese, spirituality and aesthetics."
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"But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code."
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"Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return."
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"Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations."
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"Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma."
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"California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."
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"Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it."
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"The nicest people I meet in life are those who work hard for everything they have, the meanest people I meet in life are those who have everything handed to them."
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"They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash."
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"The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition."
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"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
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"So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean."
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"It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That's what extreme diversity does to us."
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"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"
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"So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one's chances of being a victim of violence fivefold."
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"They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity."
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"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."
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"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."
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"Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces."
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"All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice."
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"Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on."
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"The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear."
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"Religious extremism is fatal to those who don't conform to its values, or remold or submit themselves to its 'principles'. It craves control and power - and power is the one tool that enables it to wreak its characteristic havoc, destruction and cruelty upon those it chooses to label as scapegoats. Giving in to extremists enables them and empowers them - and worse, it encourages them."
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"137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy."
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"Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye."
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"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept."
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"When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital."
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