Society Quotes
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What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
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Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
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Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.
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We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.
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Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
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Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
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Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
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Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?
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Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
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A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.
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Society's needs come before the individuals needs.
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
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We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.
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I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
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We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.
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In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.
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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
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Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
