- Doing
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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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.
- Cathedrals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
- Fashion Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't have the opportunities they would have liked, but they didn't complain about that because they thought they were part of a society where the next generation would have those opportunities.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.
- Grieving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychics prey on the vulnerable of society. They look like they're contacting the other side, but they're not, and they're interfering with the natural grieving process that everyone has to go through.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could they have. I assimilated wholeheartedly, found my parents in many ways embarrassing, and allowed my Russian to decline through neglect.
- Harshly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will be judged as a society and as a culture by how we treated our meanest and most vulnerable citizens. If we keep going the way we're going, we will be judged very, very harshly - and sooner, perhaps, than we think.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020