Society Quotes
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For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.
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The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
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My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
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As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
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Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
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The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.
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The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
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Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.
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My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.
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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
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We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
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The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.
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People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society - by drugging the piss out of it.
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Certainly, the contradiction of tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied. However, is it not also the case that often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division, and at times even violence in society?
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Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.
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If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
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Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.
