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Society Quotes
"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society."
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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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"In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before."
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"Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you."
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"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."
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"Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of 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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"What's done to children, they will do to society."
37
"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."
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"There is no escape-we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
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"The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently."
36
"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
36
"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
36
"This is the century of fear."
36
"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."
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"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
36
"Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud."
36
"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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"There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight."
35
"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
35
"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
35
"We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us."
35
"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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"We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few."
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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
34
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
34
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
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"It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm."
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"You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail."
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"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
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"Where we can compete on merit, we do very well."
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"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
33
"America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger."
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"We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this way preserve a dignified alienation, showing much firmness on one side, and swallowing much grief on the other. We no longer approximate in our behaviour to the mere impulsiveness of the lower animals, but conduct ourselves in every respect like members of a highly civilised society."
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