Society Quotes
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Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.
Anne Wilkes Tucker
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We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.
Kelly Reilly
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Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.
Angela Merici
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I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.
Jerry Heller
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If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.
Barack Obama
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I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.
John Rhys-Davies
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The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.
Bob Weir
Grateful Dead
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When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.
John Battelle
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The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Clara Zetkin
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Jo Brand
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
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In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.
John Ralston Saul
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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.
Albert Camus
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I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
Bill Gates
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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger
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Living in, and promoting a eugenic White society. This means that we take particular care in not only assuring the perpetuation of our precious White Race, but we take deliberate care that the misfits are culled and that each generation advances to higher and more salubrious levels, physically, aesthetically, and mentally.
Ben Klassen
