- Police
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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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minute we became a global society, especially now that we're all connected up with the Internet, people wanted to believe in something a little more interesting than their earthbound lives.
- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The combination of a workable basic formula and the capacity to improve over time is what one hopes for in any aspect of society: business, government, the non-profit sector.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been overlooked for a long time as a real public health problem. All of western society is a little bit sleep-deprived, and when I say a little bit, I mean chronically.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A straight person doesn't have to go in the media and tell them that they're straight, and I don't think a gay person should do that, neither. But that's the society we have to live in.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be haters. Small heroes can change society every day. It just takes time.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020