Famous Quotes: Society

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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I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
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We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
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Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
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Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
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I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
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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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Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
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Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
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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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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
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