- People
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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
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.
- Equip
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.
- Fail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.
- Economic Theory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.
- Cruel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.
- American Society
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- Nov 07, 2020