Society Quotes
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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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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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on 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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There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.
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All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
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Literature is the expression of society.
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Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
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We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
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For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
