Society Quotes
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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.
Anjan Sundaram
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The activity of rooting for baseball and other sports teams is one of the strongest expressions of community remaining in our society.
Andrew Zimbalist
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It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
Marilyn Monroe
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
Saul Bellow
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In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.
Allen Tate
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We are a traditional sport in an innovative society, and so trying to make change is always a task.
Katrina Adams
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I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.
Ernst Junger
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Norbert Elias
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I think most politicians think most musicians are drug addicts or ‘not an exemplary part of society, so why should they worry about putting in legislation to help that industry when they can help another industry? So, I don’t think there’s a way out, the worst thing that ever happened was the invention of the CD, because a CD is an exact copy of a master recording!
Frankie Banali
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My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
