Society Quotes
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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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Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundamental Islam is progressing and we see major religious claims, or do we want an independent nation, with people able to control their own destiny, or do we accept to be a region managed by the technocrats of the European Union?
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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Literature is the expression of society.
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.
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There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.
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A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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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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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
