Society Quotes
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I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."
Kevin Costner -
For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.
Marcy Kaptur
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Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.
Arthur Kemp -
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
bell hooks -
Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
Abraham Lincoln -
We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
Augusto Boal -
The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.
John Stuart Mill
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We now face five years of an unbridled Conservative government that is intent on swingeing cuts, further attacks on society’s most vulnerable and on our NHS. This will severely limit what can be achieved but I am determined to work tirelessly to do what I can to make sure local people are heard in Parliament and protected from the worst of what is to come.
Jo Cox -
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
Walter Weyl -
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.
Thomas Sowell -
Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.
Echo Bodine -
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 -
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
Frans de Waal
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A child smacking an adult across the face is not funny. It is, in fact, one of the last things society should tolerate.
Dennis Prager -
If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check.
Jerry Falwell -
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.
Karl Polanyi -
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Blaise Pascal -
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society 'post-capitalist.
Peter Drucker -
I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.
Ana Lily Amirpour
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The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.
Charles Dickens -
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza -
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns -And the public wants what the public gets - but I don't get what this society wants.
Paul Weller Incognito -
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James