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Society Quotes
"If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society."
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"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
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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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"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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"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."
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"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature."
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"We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore."
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"When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored."
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"Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity."
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"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
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"Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent."
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"The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering."
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"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
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"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
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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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"The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society."
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"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."
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"The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at."
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"In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties."
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"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
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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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"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
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"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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"If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important."
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"With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage."
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"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
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"Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done."
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"This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it-that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
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"What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it."
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"It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record."
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"I think the first duty of society is justice."
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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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"The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful."
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"You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes."
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