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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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
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We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
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That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.
