Society Quotes
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People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
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Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
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Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.
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America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
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Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.
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Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
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I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy.
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I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
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If we want to transform reality, we begin with ourselves. We do not ask the world to change, and we do not fight against society. It has to be us ourselves who affirm our own values.
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Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.
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The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.
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The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
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Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
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When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
