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Society Quotes
"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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"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
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"In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before."
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"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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"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."
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"Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light."
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"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
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"There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws."
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"You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail."
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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
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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."
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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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"What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way."
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"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."
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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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"You couldn't have human society without language."
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"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."
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"Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe."
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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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"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
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"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can."
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"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
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"Conflict is much the same, injustice and inequality is nothing new to our generation only the contest has changed because not only that everyone has opinion but they also have an opportunity to voice it and that is a bit dangerous."
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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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"At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything -- in other words, utter savages."
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"Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property."
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"Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure."
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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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"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event."
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"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
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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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