Society Quotes
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"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."
-Aristotle
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-Aristotle
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"In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders."
-Steve Allen
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-Steve Allen
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"Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society."
-Herbert Spencer
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-Herbert Spencer
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"The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt."
-Betty Friedan
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-Betty Friedan
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"No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work."
-Clifford Stoll
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-Clifford Stoll
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"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
-Charles Bukowski
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-Charles Bukowski
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"You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt."
-Harold Macmillan
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-Harold Macmillan
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"It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place."
-Hazel Henderson
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-Hazel Henderson
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"The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony."
-Paul Goodman
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-Paul Goodman
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"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."
-Michel Foucault
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-Michel Foucault
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"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
-Paul Sweeney
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-Paul Sweeney
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"Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life."
-Jacques Chirac
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-Jacques Chirac
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"'There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.'"
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"What's wrong with society? What is wrong is people give up searching for the trust and sit back and blend in with the crowd. But that's not who I want to be. Blending in is not my thing."
-Kamanda Ndama
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-Kamanda Ndama
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"When they turn the pages of history,when these days have passed long ago--will they read of us with sadnessfor the seeds that we let grow?"
-Neil Peart
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-Neil Peart
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"Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe."
-John Andrew Holmes
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-John Andrew Holmes
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"A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue."
-Cornel West
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-Cornel West
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"The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman."
-Boris Pasternak
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-Boris Pasternak
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"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
-Angela Davis
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-Angela Davis
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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa
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-Frank Zappa
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"There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti
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-A. Bartlett Giamatti
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"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."
-A. J. Liebling
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-A. J. Liebling
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"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong."
-Stella Adler
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-Stella Adler
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"No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society."
-Naomi Wolf
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-Naomi Wolf
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"The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults."
-Daniel P. Moynihan
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-Daniel P. Moynihan
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