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Society Quotes
"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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"You have to bring awareness to the society."
8
"We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance."
7
"Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard."
7
"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."
7
"Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?"
7
"A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate."
7
"If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another."
7
"Most women sell sex, most of them just don't take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one 'client' at a time)."
7
"If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!"
7
"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, there must be numerous movements championing the cause for truth and honesty in every aspect of our daily affairs."
7
"Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries."
7
"He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two."
7
"We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed."
7
"The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say."
7
"Society judges people by their successes. I get attracted by their dedication, simplicity, and humility."
7
"It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice."
7
"If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself. As the master, or as a member of the dominant race, he has felt little compulsion to acknowledge or speak of it; the more painful it has grown the more deeply he has hidden it within himself. But the wound is there, and is a profound disorder, as great a damage in his mind as it is in his society."
7
"It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money."
7
"A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!"
7
"In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes, everything dark and gleaming-all the effects a certain class of people produce so as to look like people of a certain class. And his place looked so much like the others that it would never have been noticed, though it all seemed quite exceptional to him."
7
"A lot of people think if they're shouting the loudest, they'll be heard, but most people lose respect for you when you lose your cool. You have to maintain everyone's respect, especially as a woman in a position of power. It's terrible to be at that kind of disadvantage, where if you yell, people will talk about you behind your back more than if you were a man. Because of those social injustices we face as women, you have to make sure that no one can call you a crazy bitch."
7
"A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!"
7
"You and I, my son, are that 'below.' That was true in 1776. It is true today. There is no them without you, and without the right to break you they must necessarily fall from the mountain, lose their divinity, and tumble out of the Dream."
7
"I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men and from a dash of purely fashionable and literary communism."
7
"If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?"
7
"The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom."
7
"Civilization is the commercialization of survival."
7
"The rich spend their life living, the poor spend their life making a living."
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