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Society Quotes
"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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"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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"We are each a product of our biological endowments, culture, and personal history. Culture ideology and cultural events along with transmitted cultural practices influences each of us. We are each the product of our collective interchanges. Our county's domestic and interlinked international conflicts fuse us together. We are each a molecule in the helix of human consciousness joined in a physical world. We form a coil of connective tissue soldered together by cultural links."
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"A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization."
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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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"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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"There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight."
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."
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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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"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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"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
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"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
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"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
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"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."
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"So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
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"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."
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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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"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
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"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
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"Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions."
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"Culture change means we will do things differently."
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"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."
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"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside."
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"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."
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"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
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"What's done to children, they will do to society."
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"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
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"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society."
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"To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave."
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