Alex Carey Quotes

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Alex Carey

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• Propaganda

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• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• 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
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• 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
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Society
  • Best
  • Better

• Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Different
  • Society

• I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Emotions

• The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • American
  • War
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Society
  • Me
  • Desire

• In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • People
  • Society
  • Popular

• Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Balance

• In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Business
  • Society

• We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited - the best and greatest country on earth.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Real
  • Trying

• I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Society

• Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

  

  Elton Gallegly
  • Long
  • Purpose
  • Green

• The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Giving
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• I have an old car that I've rebuilt myself - a 1973 Dodge Challenger - and I also have a 1967 Pontiac GTO.

  

  Jonathan LaPaglia
  • Car

• By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Business
  • Free
  • Taxes

• In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

  

  Alex Carey
  • Society
  • Control
  • Propaganda