Society Quotes
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Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through doing nothing at all.
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Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.
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Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
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People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.
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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
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A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. And quality of life includes a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.
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Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances 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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I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
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When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
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What's done to the children is done to society.
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In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.
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In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
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Soldiers out here have kept us safe for so long, that there is essentially no real danger in this society.
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I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.
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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 Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.
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China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.
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It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.
