Society Quotes
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Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
I. M. Pei
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There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
Elsa Triolet
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If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Sargent Shriver
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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 live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.
Diego Luna
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We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
Lester Bowie
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What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.
Joseph M. Kyrillos
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I think it's almost impossible to impose a free and liberal society from the outside.
Alan Charles Korsun
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Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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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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The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.
Emily James Smith Putnam
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.
Andrew Ng
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Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.
John McCain
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
Georgette Heyer
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne
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Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
David L. Bazelon
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When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.
Ernst Junger
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time-this massiveness made of individuals.
Ai Weiwei
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For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he remains free of being ruled, whether by sovereigns or by society, this does not mean that he refuses to serve in any way. In general, he serves no worse than anyone else, and sometimes even better, if he likes the game. He only holds back from the pledge, the sacrifice, the ultimate devotion. These are issues of metaphysical integrity....
Ernst Junger
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I think in society we tend to put ourselves in boxes and corners and restrict ourselves, and we constantly feel the need to not say this or not wear this.
Aubrey O'Day
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Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life.
Elena Ferrante
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One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.
John Dos Passos
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Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.
Anne Roe