Society Quotes
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
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Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
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A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
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There are ways that we, as a society, the laws that we write and the contracts we build, can try to actually increase people's ability to reap the reward from their own potential. But we put barriers in front of them.
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The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
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Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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Appearance is valued too much in our society.
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.
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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.
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Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.
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Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
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The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
