- Enlightenment
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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
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn't just evil: it is stupid.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Transparent Society,' I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have an intrinsic need for some privacy.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to do with democracy. They are means to an end, and they use the black population as sacrifices for their goals.
- Extrapolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020