Society Quotes
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The core problem in our society is political correctness.
Peter Thiel
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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.
Arthur Curley
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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
David Rockefeller
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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Johann Most
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Many body events that you think of in your society as negative - certain viruses, for example - are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.
Jane Roberts
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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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All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.
Margaret Mitchell
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The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
Marina Abramovic
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Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden
R. A. Salvatore
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Jeanette Winterson
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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.
Dalai Lama
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Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Susie Orbach
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I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.
John Muir
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I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.
Charlize Theron
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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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This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!
M. E. W. Sherwood
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I think that society is aspiring towards racial indifference, but the reality of life is not that. And so when you meet someone, you can see their race - it's right there on their face - and I feel like it's interesting.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza
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In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.
Lydia Millet
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Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.
Genco Gulan
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
Ken Kesey
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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major