- I Am
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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape people's lives and viewing the present in the context of history.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
- Dogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future is our greatest adversary. We are a very backward-looking society, and as such, we are continually blindsided by the future.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020