Society Quotes
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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.
Michel Foucault
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
Simone de Beauvoir
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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.
Michael Newdow
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
Agnes Varda
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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.
Michel Foucault
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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.
Milton Sapirstein
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I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.
Jonathan Raymond
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There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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.
Eve Ensler
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
Charlie Jane Anders
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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.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Simone de Beauvoir
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We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs.
Mohammad bin Salman
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The chasm between what central planning and liberal society brought us, should be the most studied phenomenon of our times. One looks in vain for such study in our research, textbooks, schools, and universities.
Alan Charles Korsun
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I just want to try to hold this society and hold it together, so that they’re enjoying themselves together and appreciating the same things. I mean, we’re all part of the creation of God or whatever.
Michael Eavis
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
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Soldiers out here have kept us safe for so long, that there is essentially no real danger in this society.
Bill Whittle
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We're not in control of circumstances, but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society.
Judith Butler
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Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
Stieg Larsson
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The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.
Ella T. Grasso
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I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp