George Ritzer Quotes
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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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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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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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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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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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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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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Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
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The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.
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Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
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We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
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The 2nd of April (1891) at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years.
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Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.
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I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.
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Free markets induce a natural collective reaction by society.
