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Society Quotes
"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
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"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
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"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."
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"Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less."
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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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"It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too."
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"We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong."
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"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings."
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"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."
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"The junkies had themselves a field day, they didn't care for the safety of the overseas tourists, no sir. They would stop at nothing. Some tourists were left bloodied and battered on the sacred ground of the Wallace Monument, minus their video cameras and the likes. The camera's were soon sold to a fence in the Raploch for pennies, compared to the actual price it was worth, then the junkies didn't waste much time getting to Big Mags' door with the £20 that they had got from the local fence in the nearby neighbourhood."
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"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
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"The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained."
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"The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so."
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"Mr. Boy Scout was not for her. He was exactly the type of man her family would expect her to settle down with. Freaking perfect."
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"If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society."
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"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society."
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"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
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"What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows:"A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money."When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made."
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"As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution."
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"Or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours."
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"He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton."
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"Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom."
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"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave."
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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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"A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation."
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"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest."
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"The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations."
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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality."
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"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."
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"The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society."
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"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."
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"The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society."
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