Paulo Freire Quotes
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
Orhan Pamuk
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Oliver Ellsworth
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
Pamela Meyer
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Ice Cube
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
Irvine Welsh
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
Ian Somerhalder
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
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We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
Brown Campbell
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Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
Yair Lapid
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In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.
Liz Goldwyn
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When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.
Jeremy Gilley
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In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.
H. L. Mencken
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(mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) 'Hey...' (cracks) You paid to see it... 'hey... Ever eaten a worm?' (2nd fish) 'What? When did you ever eat a worm?' 'Oh, one day, me and my buddy were laying on the bank... trying to catch our breath...' - thank you, for those of you who got that...
Bill Engvall
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I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
Jack Whitehall
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Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Paulo Freire