952 private quotes tagged society

“The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.” — James Connolly

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“The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.” — Noam Chomsky

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“I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.” — Madeleine Albright

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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.” — Michel Foucault

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“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.” — Peter Fonda

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“There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.” — Ian MacKaye

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“The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.” — Tyra Banks

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“I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.” — Charles Kuralt

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“Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.” — Abu Bakr

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“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.” — Christopher Lasch

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“I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.” — Charles Kuralt

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“The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.” — Elia Kazan

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“We've turned into a whining society.” — Billy Corgan

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“While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.” — Norman Douglas

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“We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.” — Bryan Cranston

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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.” — Henry Adams

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“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.” — Roland Barthes

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“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” — Vince Lombardi

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“I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.” — A. Whitney Brown

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“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.” — Peter Medawar

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“Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” — James A. Baldwin

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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” — Adam Smith

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“Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.” — John Ralston Saul

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