Famous Quotes: Society

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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America's a very traumatized society.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
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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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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
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I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
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