- Me
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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
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
- Anniversary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
- Cosmos
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020