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Society Quotes
"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."
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"I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again."
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"Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands."
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"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
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"There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction."
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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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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
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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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"But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive."
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"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."
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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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"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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"Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection."
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"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
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"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."
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"We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region."
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"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
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"The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so."
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"Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don't fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ['Ugly mug offense']"
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"It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company."
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"That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy."
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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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"Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations."
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"It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy."
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"As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, "Life was better since the government came because "a man could now eat without looking over his shoulder and could leave his house in the morning to urinate without fear of being shot."
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"I do not belong to any political party because I am not a party to the wrongs they eventually do."
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"We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted."
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"...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly."
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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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"Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity."
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"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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