Society Quotes
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.
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I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.
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Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.
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Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society is capable of treating us equally, then we can and will live authentically.
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The threshold question: Will banks continue to exist? The answer is yes, because society will still need the two essential functions they provide: mobilization of capital from providers to users, and facilitation of payments for goods and services.
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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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The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.
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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
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Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. - as a society and as an industry - we've made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.
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To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
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Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.
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America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
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Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.
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If I grew up in a truly color-blind society, I would not be a black American.
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Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
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I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.
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At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.
