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- Nov 07, 2020
American Society Quotes
On change, struggle, and identity: quotes about American society.
These quotes reflect on American society through civil rights history and ongoing questions about inequality, including how the gap between the very wealthy and everyone else strains the country. See related lines on the American quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.
- Annual
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I launched Imperia at the Statue of Liberty because I wanted to use something symbolic. I like American society because it always wants to do something new and better.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own people to emulate it. There is a certain falseness about such arguments, and also a certain hypocrisy.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.
- Defiance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.
- Nov 07, 2020