Our Society Quotes - Page 2

• Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Compassion, Safety

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• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  Candace Bushnell

  Inspiring, Money, Powerful

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• Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Opportunity, Law, Employment

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• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

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• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Society Today, Corny, Corruption

  Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria. President (1999-2007 : Obasanjo) (2007). “Standing tall 2”

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• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.

  Ted Koppel

  Strong, Medicine, Truth Is

  Ted Koppel's Commencement Address at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, www.crisismagazine.com. February 1, 1988.

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• Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, Moving, Future

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• It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

  Emma Watson

  Home, Government, Understanding

  Speech About Gender Equality at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, www.eonline.com. January 23, 2015.

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• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Negativity, Shapes

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

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• I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Country, Thinking, Long

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

  Michael Fassbender

  Teacher, Drama, School

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2011.

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Perfection, Hollywood

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• Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Democracy, Elements, Liberal Democracy

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• It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

  Bill James

  Growing Up, Believe, People

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• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  Josh Mandel

  Agency, Government, People

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• Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

  Janet Napolitano

  Children, Educational, School

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• I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

  Michael Newdow

  Believe, Government, Atheism

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Spiritual, Progress, States

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• America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

  Jim Leach

  Thinking, America, Doe

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• The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

  Scott Pelley

  Thinking, America, People

  "Scott Pelley: In His Own Words" by Beth Knobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Men, Broken, Ancestry

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• Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

  Rick Santelli

  Greatness, America, Hands

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• I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

  Mark Udall

  Military, Years, Assault Weapons

  "Udall comes out in favor of reinstating assault weapons ban" by Eli Stokols, kdvr.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, Age, Certain

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.16, Vintage

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