- 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
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
- Prosperity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not forget that culture is the key tool to make society advance and defeat all forms of radicalism.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone thinks the course of Italian politics will become anti-European, against an open society, against trade, or populist, as they say today, the facts will prove them wrong.
- Nov 07, 2020
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.
- Hardwired
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desire for social connection is fundamentally hardwired into our psychology, and so being deprived of it has devastating mental and physical consequences. Yet we live in a society which has become ever more fragmented and atomised.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should all expect to be able to die with comfort, dignity and love. Our society does not lack the wealth to realise this aspiration, but the willpower.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is the democratisation of every level of society, or it is nothing. It is based on an understanding that the concentration of wealth and power leaves democracy hollowed out, and that simply trooping to a polling station every few years is an insufficient counterweight to the behemoths of global capital.
- Nov 07, 2020
In a society rigged in favour of landlords over tenants, to rent privately is to be deprived of security.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020