Douglas Tompkins Quotes
I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
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It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
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I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want.
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For me, democratic socialism is about - really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.
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I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.
