African Spir Quotes
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Candace Bushnell
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There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.
Carl Sagan
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In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
Karl Marx
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More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook. This is transferable from country to country, and from race to race, wherever there is a rational society.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Health systems are social institutions. They do far more for society than deliver babies and pills, like a post office delivering parcels. Properly managed and adequately financed, a fair and equitable health system contributes to social cohesion and stability.
Margaret Chan
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A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.
Ai Weiwei
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Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.
Demetri Martin
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Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
Ian Buruma
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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
Steven Berkoff
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
Karl Malone
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To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit
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