Society Quotes
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Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.
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Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.
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I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before.
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We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.
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The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society.
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You can't build a society without law.
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Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
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The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
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There are only about four hundred people in New York society.
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Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
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Our philosophy at 8VC is that many of the companies that present the greatest economic opportunities also create the greatest value for society.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
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Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
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It is good for society to have this introspection.
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
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Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It's the best bet for our society, for entrepreneurs, and for the investors who believe in them.
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Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
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The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
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The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
