- Power
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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
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
- Dramatic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.
- Averse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
- Local
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda and ISIS may have global aspirations, but their ability to penetrate a society is strongly influenced by local conditions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020