Society Quotes
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When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?
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It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
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As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.
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I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
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She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
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For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
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Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do, & didn't save many, anyway; but if he had been damned for the race that would have been act of a size proper to a god, & would have saved the whole race. However, why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
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The ideal of a self-organizing society based on voluntary cooperation rather than upon coercion is irrepressible.
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When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.
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We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
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Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
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The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
