Society Quotes
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But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.
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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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Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.
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Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.
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Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.
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More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
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In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
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We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.
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I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
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Crime is a form of 'unorganized' class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.
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For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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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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The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.
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You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
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Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
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I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.
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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
