- 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
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
- Daily Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
- Mass
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- Nov 07, 2020
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
- Emancipate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communities. Yes, there's immense talent brewing even within the most impoverished neighborhoods. Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020