Our Society Quotes - Page 11

• It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education. It starts with the way people are brought up, and what is put into their heads and put into their minds as engaged citizens.

  Oren Moverman

  People, Secret, Mind

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• That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

  Sheri Fink

  Book, Objectivity, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

  Jia Zhangke

  Technology, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are a lot of celebrities that I think can get a little bit distracted by the way that our society views celebrity. All of a sudden, the film becomes about, "Come see this celebrity!" I'm not interested in that. I want to see a story.

  Condola Rashad

  Thinking, Views, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It's not the government's job. You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government's job and I think where we've gotten confused.

  Benjamin Carson

  Jobs, Confused, Responsibility

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Actors, Mental Illness

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold just like any object. But prostitutes are people, not objects to be consumed, used and discarded like trash when they are no longer doing what each client/trafficker wants.

  Annie Lobert

  Sex, Two, People

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• The basis of all love is self-love and we certainly suffer a lot in our society from lack of self-love. When we don't take care of ourselves, it's really just a symptom of not loving ourselves. So the worst thing that we can do is to beat ourselves up for how we've already treated ourselves.

  Marci Shimoff

  Love Is, Self, Suffering

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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  I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.

  Ice Cube

  Believe, Pyramids, People

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Class, Race

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Fashion, Hate, Fighting

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.

  Andrew Linzey

  Nature, Responsibility, Men

  Andrew Linzey (1976). “Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals”, SCM Press

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• Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Artist, Trying, Blame

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Way, Helping

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

  Rafael Cruz

  Prayer, School, Study

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and not ask if this is the right thing to do to be in this war, but what this war is doing to the fabric of our society.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Blue, Political

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• I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.

  Boris Johnson

  Believe, Pride, Opportunity

  Interview with Charlie Kenber, londoncalling.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Being LGBT is not a choice. It's not about "a sexual proclivity." It's not a "lifestyle," as you put it. It's about our identity. Pride is a time when we come together to celebrate our community and when others do, too. Just as we do for other racial, ethnic, and religious groups that are part of the "tossed salad" nature of our society.

  Steven Petrow

  Religious, Pride, Choices

  "Civilities: We'll be talking about your reactions to the Orlando massacre for the full hour". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 21, 2016.

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• The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.

  William E. Kennard

  Communication, Technology, Years

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate freely around it, and those people who learn how to navigate better in that space are finding that they have better access to information about jobs and education and all the good things that our society produces.

  William E. Kennard

  Jobs, America, Space

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Men, Force Fields

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

  Dominic Raab

  Country, Kids, Speaks Out

  "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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