Society Quotes
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What I am describing is not only a society dominated by corporatist structures, but by the received wisdom of a corporatist atmosphere: one in which the élites are interest-driven, whatever their jobs. And so the society is gradually being redrawn to suit this ethic-free system.
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Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
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I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
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The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind....Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.
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What is good for society is also good for business.
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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Many men, labelled homosexual by themselves and others, want to be fathers. Their beliefs and those of your society leads them to imagine that they must always be heterosexual
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Living somewhere permanently, you have a stake in society. I had no stake. It did not matter to my life which way the war turned, and I think that gave a certain purity to the endeavor that I undertook. I see it as something positive, something that helps me conduct the kind of reporting that I wanted to do.
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We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
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Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.
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The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.
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Unlike dream ideas, those of the artist are attuned both to the material and to society. They are a specific form of communication, intended to elicit applause, resonance of a positive or negative kind, to arouse jor or anger, clapping or booing, love or hate.
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Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.
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I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.
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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
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Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.
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We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
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Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.
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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.
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We lost our way, our society lost our way.
