Society Quotes
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
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I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.
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I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.
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The spirit of the Knowledge Society is the spirit of Pluralism-a readiness to accept the Other, indeed to learn from him, to see difference as an opportunity rather than a threat.
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Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.
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On my debut album, I wrote a lot about women and their roles in society.
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I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.
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I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.
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I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.
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My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
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Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society is better off if some industries are allowed to wither, their workers lose their jobs, and investors lose their capital - all in the name of the greater glory of globalization - surely ranks near the top.
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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
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Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. The aggregate relations among individuals and groups, among individuals within groups, and among groups forms a network of astonishing complexity.
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If more people follow their superpowers - and everyone has one - then we're going to be better as a society.
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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
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To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
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The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.
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A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.
