Society Quotes
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
Allen Ginsberg
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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.
Iain Duncan Smith
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
Oscar Wilde
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
J. D. Vance
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Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
Yair Lapid
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
Gary Bauer
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I joined this party because I believe in freedom. We are the only party believing that if you give people freedom and responsibility, they will grow stronger and society will grow stronger.
David Cameron
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
Samantha Power
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
Adam Ostrow
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India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
G. Gordon Liddy
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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
Marina Abramovic
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.
Natalie Maines
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members...
Harry S Truman
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
Sam Brownback
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
Karen Armstrong
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. Priestley