Society Quotes
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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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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The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
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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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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.
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We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
