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Society Quotes
"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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"Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?"
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"What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved."
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"We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war."
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"The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization."
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"Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society."
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"When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions."
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"We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way."
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"We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior."
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"And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer."
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"So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians."
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"The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values."
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"The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people."
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"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
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"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic."
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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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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
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"A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated."
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"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."
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"It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.''That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.''Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things."
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"I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged."
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"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now."
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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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"Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society."
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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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"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
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"Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it."
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"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."
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"Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola."
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