952 private quotes tagged society

“If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.” — Andrew Cuomo

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“We need proof in our society.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.” — Marilyn vos Savant

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“When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.” — Ani DiFranco

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“But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.” — Arlen Specter

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“A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.” — Christopher Lasch

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“The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.” — David Mamet

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“Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.” — George McGovern

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“Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.” — John Ralston Saul

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“Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.” — James Hillman

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“There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.” — Benjamin Carson

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“There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.” — Jo Brand

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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.” — Phil McGraw

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“In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.” — James Buchan

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“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.” — Michel Foucault

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“These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.” — Herbert Read

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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.” — Jean Baudrillard

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“Sports are a microcosm of society.” — Billie Jean King

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“The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.” — Salman Rushdie

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“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.” — Christina Hoff Sommers

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“In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.” — Noam Chomsky

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