Society Quotes
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Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.
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A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.
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Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
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The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of world economic systems, our amazing success in harnessing the powers of nature to the betterment of the human condition in health, subsistence, longevity. These are the hallmarks of our society - its most successful elements.
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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 must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.
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The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.
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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
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Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
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It's important to recognize that expanding the circle of opportunity and increasing the democratic potential of our own society, as well as those across the world, is a continuing process of inclusion.
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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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're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
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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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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.
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People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.
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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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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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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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Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
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We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.
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Between man and his social environment there is a reciprocal action. Men make society what it is and society makes men what they are, and the result is therefore a kind of vicious circle.
