bell hooks Quotes
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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BJP is the mothership of violence.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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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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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.
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I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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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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We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
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We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
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I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
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People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.
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The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
