Society Quotes
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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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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.
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I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.
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Improved maternal health benefits the whole 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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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 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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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.
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All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.
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We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
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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.
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In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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In a society with a long history of discrimination, there should be a presumption that many laws with a discriminatory impact likely were motivated by a discriminatory purpose.
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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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A really failing society has a lot of rules or laws.
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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.
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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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Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.
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In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
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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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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.
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You either have a civil society or you dont.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
