Society Quotes
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Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.
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Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.
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It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
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In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
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Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
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You won't be surprised to know, therefore, that the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the same organisation at the top level where the Elders of the Mormons and the leaders of the Watchtower Society operate a very different agenda to the one their followers believe.
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.
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The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
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I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.
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In order to know about the illnesses of society, you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer.
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Communal mobilisation in the long run will not succeed in India because Indian society cannot be mobilized communally. Even the last elections have shown that communities, religious communities, castes did not vote solidly for one party.
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Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
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And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.
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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
