Our Society Quotes - Page 27

• If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Cancer, Grandchildren, Agony

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• If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.

  Jim DeMint

  People, Political, Reform

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• Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.

  Bernice Sandler

  Hurt, Sex, Practice

  "Discrimination Against Women: Congressional Hearings on Equal Rights in Education and Employment". Book editing by Catharine R. Stimpson, R. R. Bowker, 1973.

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• Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Gay, Bisexual

  Barack Obama's Remarks at the Human Rights Campaign's Annual National Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 1, 2011.

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• Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.

  William J Doherty

  Marriage, Children, Couple

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• There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

  Alan AtKisson

  Environmental, Society, Sustainability

  Alan AtKisson (2012). “Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World”, p.197, Routledge

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• Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

  P. M. Forni

  Respect, Nice, Communication

  "Einstein Was a Mensch" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Exercise, Slim, Potatoes

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• Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

  William J. Murray

  Men, Majority Rule, Democracy

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• The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

  Dorothy Fields

  Mom, Mother, Men

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• The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to man, is an essential part of every religious and social order. The health of our society depends upon a deep and abiding respect for the basic commandments of the God of Israel.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Religious, Teaching, Men

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• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ... Most, if not all of you, have very deep ties with the land and with the people of Israel, as I do; for my Christian faith sprang from yours. The Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle of modem Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Christian, Spiritual, Memories

  "A Just and Dignified Peace". Lyndon Johnson's Speech on the state of the Middle East, September 10, 1968.

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• So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Country, Reality, Problem

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• In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

  Marya Mannes

  Inspirational, Reality, Accepted

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

  Edward Bond

  Art, Reality, Literature

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• Killing time is the chief end of our society.

  Ugo Betti

  Time, Killing, Ends

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  Will Burtin

  Communication, Data, Ideas

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• Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

  Richard J. Daley

  Jobs, Political, Attention

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• Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

  Norm Coleman

  Retirement, America, Productive Life

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• We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.

  Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

  Army, Men, Thinking

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• Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

  Edward Abbey

  Taken, People, Important

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• You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

  Peter Costello

  Jobs, Cutting, Errors

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• The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Creativity, Men, Games

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• Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

  Lydia M. Child

  Fashion, Flower, Being Different

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• An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Soldier, Israeli

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