Society Quotes
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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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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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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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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.
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We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.
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Birth control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
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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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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation.
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If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that.
