Famous Quotes: Society

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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We need proof in our society.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
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It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
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The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
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