- Epidemic
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of their marginalised position in the economy, the mass of the workers carry the burdens of society.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to remind ourselves of the kind of society of which we have dreamed for so long, for which we have fought, and for which so many lost their lives.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment.
- Enact
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
- Civil Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's unsurprising that while Americans and Donald Trump are working to re-establish the rule of law and rebuild civil society in America, CNN once again flies off the handle and tries to make everything about race in order to keep Americans divided.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
- Longer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
- Capitalistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020