- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society Quotes
Society examined from the inside, not just observed.
These quotes treat society as something actively shaped by present decisions, from communication policy to who gets admitted into leadership. For lines on how people choose to live day to day, see Live quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020