Hugo Black Quotes
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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No one likes to be criticized.
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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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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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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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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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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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It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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I have always prided myself on if, hypothetically, the entertainment industry just dissolved, just went away today, I feel that I have enough marketable skills that I could still contribute to society and make a difference. I'm a very good typist.
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
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The aggregation of the spiritual life from the practical life is a curse that falls impartially upon both sides of our existence. A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.
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Cinema is always a political art, at the end.
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Tourette's has always been a tough one for many to digest because of its seeming irrationality: 'Why do you have to twitch or make noises? You seem normal, with no physical defects.' It's next to impossible to answer without living it.
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You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
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I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
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The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
