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Society Quotes
"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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"137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy."
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"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."
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"No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society."
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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
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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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"American culture has regressed because of contemporary society's glorification of making a good living and spending free time in media activities rather than constantly devoting themselves to a learning and self-improvement. The combination of grooming youngsters to fit into a commercial workplace and Americans willingness to submit themselves to endless hours of watching television shows filled with murders, violence, sex, and replete with advertisements that promote the goods of commercial giants has eroded the American spirit and contributed to lack of an intellectually sophisticated populous."
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"We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now."
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"The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite-sometimes presented as a warning, but often quite complacently. Socialism is never considered as an alternative, and democracy is quite forgotten. Military virtues are taken as ethical ones. Wealth is assumed to be a righteous goal and a personal virtue. Competitive free-enterprise capitalism is the economic destiny of the entire Galaxy. In general, American SF has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."
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"You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail."
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"For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible."
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"In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today."
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"But the plans were on display."On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."That's the display department."With a flashlight."Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."So had the stairs."But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"Yes, said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard."
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."
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"What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved."
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"I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for."
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"Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil."
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"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
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"However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly."
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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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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
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"The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society."
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"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
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"And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer."
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"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."
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"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally."
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"Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement."
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"Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption."
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"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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"The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer."
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"We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society."
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"If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society."
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