Society Quotes
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Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
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Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”
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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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Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none more dangerous than the attempt to integrate the whole of society in one vast, permanent action group.
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We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
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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 digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.
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Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
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Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
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The notion of "system" has gained central importance in contemporary science, society and life. In many fields of endeavor, the necessity of a "systems approach" or "systems thinking" is emphasized, new professions called "systems engineering," "systems analysis" and the like have come into being, and there can be little doubt that this this concept marks a genuine, necessary, and consequential development in science and world-view.
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Cover-ups and deception are the nature of this society. Without lies it won’t exist.
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Whereas the good news had first been published for its own sake with no concern for success, now ineluctably success brought, as always, a desire for it. … They were not aware of what was happening, namely, that society was inverting Christianity instead of being subverted by it.
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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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I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
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As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.
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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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I believe it is my job to do everything I can so that everyone in our society feels safe, feels that justice is not an abstract concept but a fact of life for all Americans.
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Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.
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Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
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Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.
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You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
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In India, I personally believe yes, there is a clear fear of unknown; there's a lot of risk aversions in science and technology. They want predictability in everything they do, and it starts from people. It starts from investors. It starts from the regulators. You see that mindset across the society.
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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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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
