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Society Quotes
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
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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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"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."
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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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"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."
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"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment."
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"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
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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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"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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"You couldn't have human society without language."
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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
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"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
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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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"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
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"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
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"It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming."
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"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."
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"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence."
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"There is no escape-we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
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"The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition."
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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
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"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society."
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"I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out."
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"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience."
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"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society."
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"I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society."
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"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
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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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"Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians."
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"When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes."
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