- People
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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
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sweden is a great country. What is not so great is that we have a society that, in a way, says it's great if you don't look right, if you don't look left, if you just look straight forward.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
- Market
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- Nov 07, 2020
A society is not a market. It is a political community.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020