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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
- Framing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for 'Siren' to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.
- Nov 07, 2020
The CBFC is only mirroring society.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aim of the Palestinian terror is not just to kill Israelis but also to break the will of Israeli society in order to dictate a political solution. Israel should never yield to this terror campaign.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020