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Society Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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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"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society."
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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
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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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"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."
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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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"We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted."
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"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
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"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."
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"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest."
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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
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"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important."
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"There is no escape-we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
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"What we hear and see through the filter of bias becomes our truth, while planting the seeds of conflict."
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"He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton."
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"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."
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"There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!"
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"I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
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"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism."
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"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
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"He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist."
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"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."
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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
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"Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still."
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"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
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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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"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."
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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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"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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