Saul Bellow Quotes
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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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.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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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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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
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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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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
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People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
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There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
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Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.
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Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.
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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
