- Money
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
- Coming Of Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole.
- American Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own people to emulate it. There is a certain falseness about such arguments, and also a certain hypocrisy.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States was founded on a revolution that abolished the monarchy, aristocracy, titles and primogeniture. Britain may be able in the future to become a more equal and open society while retaining all of these things. But this has yet to be proved.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020