Society Quotes
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What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
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I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.
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It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever way possible, is the only way to create change.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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We actually might get a lot of letters and phone calls from normal society.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
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There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
