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Society Quotes
"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."
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"Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty."
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"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
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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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"You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches."
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"We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way."
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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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"What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact."
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"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
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"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."
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"The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again."
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"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
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"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."
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"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
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"I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged."
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"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."
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"It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement."
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"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
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"It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."
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"We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings."
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"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired."
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."
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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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"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
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"No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more."
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
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"If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society."
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"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration."
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"Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt."
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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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"Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!"
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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
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"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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