Society Quotes
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Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.
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We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
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I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.
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With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.
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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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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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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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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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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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Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.
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As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.
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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
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I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.
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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.
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I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.
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For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.
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Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
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Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
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Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.
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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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Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
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If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
