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Society Quotes
"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 live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society."
8
"If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important."
8
"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."
8
"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."
8
"We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes."
8
"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
8
"We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom."
8
"America is the best half-educated country in the world."
8
"But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA."
8
"Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil."
8
"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."
7
"The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative."
7
"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."
7
"So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians."
7
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
7
"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."
7
"If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society."
7
"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
7
"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."
7
"We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great."
7
"I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged."
7
"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
7
"In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before."
7
"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
7
"Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies."
7
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
7
"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."
7
"We tend to think that God doesn't struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity."
7
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
7
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
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