Society Quotes
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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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.
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Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.
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I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
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Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.
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Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
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You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
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We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
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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.
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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!
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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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When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.
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There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
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If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
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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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Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.
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As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.
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Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
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The ferment and viability in any society is directly proportionate to the number of people actively living their ideas. This is not positive thinking - it is positive action: the spirit of experiment.
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The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and his moral vigor. The society is made of individuals. What is true for an individual is also true for the society. A society that is not founded on moral values is doomed to fall.
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The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.
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I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
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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.
