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Society Quotes
"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship."
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"Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are."
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"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside."
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"I think the first duty of society is justice."
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"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration."
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"The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ['Keeping up with the Joneses']"
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"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken."
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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
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"The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women."
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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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"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."
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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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"Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud."
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"Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans."
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"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
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"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you."
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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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"What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands."
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"Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories."
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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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"When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say."
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"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism."
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"Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century."
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"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."
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"We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society."
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"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
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"There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think."
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"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."
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"Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected."
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"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them."
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"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation."
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