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Society Quotes
"Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew."
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"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible."
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"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"
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"Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world."
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"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
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"But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success."
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"So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional."
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"Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be."
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"Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving."
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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 issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe."
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"If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community."
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"I'm assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution.' (Eric)"
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"If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever."
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"His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape."
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"We can cure the disease of intolerance. We must do it if the world is to survive. No us. No them. Just we."
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"Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral consciousness and the arts of civilization? It is a mystery indeed.The most obvious explanation is that the creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as contrasted to the ideal) gods of our society - the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the 'idols of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people."
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"A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes."
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"You've got a big ego, Fuentes.'That's not all I've got."
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"Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!"
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"Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime."
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"I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals."
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"You English," said Steenhold."You Americans," said Rud."When you aren't as fresh as paint," he said, "you Americans are as stale as old cabbage leaves. I'm amazed at your Labour leaders, at the sort of things you can still take seriously as Presidential Candidates. These leonine reverberators tossing their manes back in order to keep their eyes on the White House -- they belong to the Pleistocene. We dropped that sort of head in England after John Bright. When the Revolution is over and I retire, I shall retire as Hitler did, to some remote hunting-lodge, and we'll have the heads of Great Labour Leaders and Presidential Hopes stuck all round the Hall. Hippopotami won't be in it."
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"In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect...."
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"For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that one could improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. For the unconscionable, political reactivism was seductive because it seemed to protect one's holdings and legitimize one's greed. But both sides were gazing through a kerchief of illusion."
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"The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man is himself in sore need of new standards, which will release him from his confusion and place him once again in fruitful communion with the depths of his own being."
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"Beauty' and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be 'beautiful' to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both 'beautiful' and 'sexual' constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention."
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"Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins."
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"I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest."
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"One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category."
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"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."
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"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
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"The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it."
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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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"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."
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"The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis."
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"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism."
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"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."
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"With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language."
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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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