Society Quotes
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
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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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You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.
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Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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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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By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.
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English civilization - the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society - that is what interests me.
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We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.
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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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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
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A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
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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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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
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Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.
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I think pop culture has always influenced society.
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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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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
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I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
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Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.
