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Society Quotes
"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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"Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement."
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"Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall."
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"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
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"And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need."
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"I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society."
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"As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
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"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
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"America faces a new race that has awakened."
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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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"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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"Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move."
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"Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class."
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"It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences."
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
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"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
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"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
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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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"Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals."
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"Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population."
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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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"But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code."
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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
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"Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy."
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"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."
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"The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society."
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"You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that."
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"Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society."
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"Culture change means we will do things differently."
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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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"Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still."
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"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent."
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