- 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
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was like, 'I don't know this.' I have no idea, and I don't pretend to, but now I'm more aware of it because I've engaged on that frequency.
- Exerting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The privilege of a free society is that every man, woman, and child has the opportunity - and the obligation as a free people - to determine the trajectory of their country, of a political race.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020