Alan AtKisson Quotes
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
Quotes to Explore
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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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.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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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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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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I'm not designed to interact with society.
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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.
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Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.
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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.
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Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.
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I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' But what was important to me in those years was to make movies, to make these Albert Brooks movies.
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Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
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I've been stalked.
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I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
