Our Society Quotes - Page 19

• We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

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• There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Average, People, Groups

  "Interview: Charles R. Swindoll on Public Speaking and Letting God Lead Our Lives". Interview with Myles Collier, www.christianpost.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

  Serj Tankian

  Injustice, Awareness, Type

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.

  Clarence Thomas

  Real, School, People

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• We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

  Helen Thomas

  Believe, People, Democracy

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• I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.

  Robert Winston

  Believe, People, Neurosis

  "The Story of God". Book by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

  John Wooden

  Teaching, Teacher Appreciation, Thinking

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• To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Writing, Mind, Overcoming

  "Why Businesses Need to Reshape Society" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2013.

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• If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

  Howard Zinn

  Tyrants, Ideas, Soldier

  Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.17, Routledge

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• Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Apathy, Radicalism, Rich

  "The 50 new radicals" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable. Satanists must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Stupid, Ignorance, Media

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• The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Love Is, Natural

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• I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

  Harper Lee

  Broken, Gentleman, Guilt

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

  Amber Benson

  Night, Normalcy, World

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• Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Important

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.209, Vintage Canada

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• Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

  Saddam Hussein

  Strong Women, Feminism, Female

  Saddam Hussein (2009). “Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)”, p.14, Routledge

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• Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

  Milton Friedman

  Block, Choices, Building

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• Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.

  James E. Faust

  Choices, Behavior, Individual

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• I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.

  Nancy Pearl

  Book, Talking, Long

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• It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Rain, Believe

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Pain, Manipulation, Causes

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Thinking, Example

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.50, Souvenir Press

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• I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Art, Wonder, Spokes

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• And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

  Greg Mortenson

  Moving, Mountain, Pennies

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.76, Penguin

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