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Society Quotes
"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
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"The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person."
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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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"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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"When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?"
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"The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
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"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."
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"They read a little bit, write a little, and especially agree with themselves on important moves, important information, important awards, important writers that they plan to enthrone forever in history through a variety of memberships and numerous prizes awarded under the influence of top bureaucrats who know everything, not only about literature, but also about secret conspiracies, the Masons that lurk in every corner to crucify someone, steal someone's soul and sell it to an unknown devil, about whom only the chief bureaucrat possesses secret knowledge that he doesn't share; about history, ghosts, missing continents; about who said what to whom in confidence."
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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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"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
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"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."
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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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"The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq."
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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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"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
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"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
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"Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola."
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"Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness"."
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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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"War never leaves where it found a nation."
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"We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist."
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"You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so - and I think too that the mode of bringing them up is strange, they are not half sufficiently guarded from temptation - Girls are protected as if they were something very frail and silly indeed while boys are turned loose on the world as if they - of all beings in existence, were the wisest and the least liable to be led astray."
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"When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes."
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."
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"I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief."
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"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals."
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"What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem."
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