Society Quotes
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Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.
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Or maybe I had known him or maybe there's something that happens between some people at a level that goes beyond time measurements and what society thinks is proper. Maybe what had happened between Stark and me in those few minutes in the field house had been enough to have our souls recognize each other. Soul mates? Was that even possible?
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.
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Each ideology, in the oppressive air of conformity which ideologies create, will force public figures to conform or be ruined on the scaffold of ridicule. In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
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You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
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I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
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There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.
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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
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The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
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I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
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As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
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Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
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When we study history we obtain a more profound insight into human nature by instituting a comparison between the present and former states of society.
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In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
