Society Quotes
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...Meanwhile in the USA paranoid Republicans have accused Barack Obama of being a ruthless despot hatching conspiracies to destroy the foundations of American society – yet in eight years of his presidency he barely managed to pass a minor health-care reform.
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What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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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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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.
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As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
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I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?
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Th’ dead ar-re always pop’lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an’ refuse to help his fam’ly, all in wan night.
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Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.
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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
