Society Quotes
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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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The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.
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And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
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When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
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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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Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
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I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
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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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We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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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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Soldiers out here have kept us safe for so long, that there is essentially no real danger in this society.
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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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You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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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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The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
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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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Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
