Society Quotes
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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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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.
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Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.
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I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
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You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.
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I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
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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 structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive.
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For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'.
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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
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If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.
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Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.
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One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.
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If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
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Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
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In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.
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Our concern is solely with the basic structure of society and its major institutions and therefore with the standard cases of social justice.
