Society Quotes
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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We live in a very gynophobic society.
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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
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The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
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Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.
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If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.
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The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
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I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.
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Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.
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The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
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We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women. We do have much more work to do though, in spreading awareness about where we fall short in our culture and in other cultures.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
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The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not find its full or complete satisfaction in the conventional or superficial, and deceitful world, in which or where everyone is mainly or mostly trying to assert oneself in front of others, to appear, and hoping to find in society relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity.
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America at the turn of this century is a far freer, more egalitarian society than in 1900.
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The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.
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Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
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It is an oft-repeated axiom that a person can learn a whole lot about a society by how it treats its poor; but just as much may be learned by looking at how that same society treats its rich. Indeed, the economic future of the poor—and our nation—will be determined in the coming decades by how we treat the people in this country who create great wealth. It will be determined by our understanding of the so-called rich and by our need to foster and protect this minority of true wealth creators.
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I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.
