Colin Wilson Quotes
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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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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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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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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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!
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Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.
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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
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I'm a person that, once I start something, I can't just quit it.
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I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.
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The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.
