- Believe
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to maintain both our comfort and our positions in a racially inequitable society from which we benefit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As white people in this society, we are socialized from the time that we're born to see ourselves as superior, to see white people and things associated white people as superior. At the same time, I'm encouraged to never admit to that. I'm taught that racism is very bad and immoral.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.
- Stupidity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Capitalistic
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- Nov 07, 2020
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carbon is the stuff of life, and it's the stuff of everything used by human society. All of our materials are made of carbon or of substances, such as steel or glass, which are produced through the utilization of carbon.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020