- Freedom
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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
- Democratic Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.
- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
- Class Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020