- Educating
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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
- Glorification
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- Nov 07, 2020
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think marriage is gonna be easy, don't do it because when there are children involved, you screw up the rest of society.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands. Throughout the hemisphere, paternalistic governments accustom people to receiving just enough to survive instead of participating in society.
- Motive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020