Our Society Quotes - Page 28

• I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Land, America

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• We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Wise, Brother

  Pope Francis' Message to Cardinal Kurt Koch On The Occasion of The 10th General Assembly of The World Council Of Churches, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2013.

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• Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

  Eric Bentley

  Running, Spring, Flower

  Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press

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• Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.

  Irving Fisher

  Class, Long, Political

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• For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

  Linda Sanchez

  Bullying, Attitude, School

  "LGBT Youth Need Our Voices to Stand Up to Bullying" by Rep. Linda Sanchez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

  John Hagee

  Children, Book, Home

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• But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Luxury, Paris

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• There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

  Eric Schmidt

  Years, Judgement, Surveillance

  "Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is 'the nature of our society'" by Amanda Holpuch, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2013.

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• The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

  June Jordan

  Children, Father, Kids

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.159, Basic Books

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• One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work. Whereas in the past children not only saw what their parents did for a living but even shared substantially in the task, many children nowadays have only a vague notion of the nature of the parent's job, and have had little or no opportunity to observe the parent, or for that matter any other adult, when he is fully engaged in his work.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Jobs, Children, Past

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

  Jim DeRogatis

  Black, Matter, Facts

  "Miss Me With the Pass for R. Kelly", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2015.

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• I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

  Ken MacLeod

  Optimistic, Thinking, Long

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• Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

  David Dinkins

  Cancer, Race, Issues

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• The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Shoes, People

  "As a society, are we losing our empathy?" by Catherine Conroy, www.irishtimes.com. January 30, 2017.

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• But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

  Daniel Barenboim

  Pregnancy, Eye, Listening

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• Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

  Keith Miller

  Addiction, Disease, Mark

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• Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

  Homer Hickam

  Optimistic, People, Mind

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• The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

  Anita Hill

  Real, Power, Pits

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• I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

  Bill Lee

  Change, Baseball, Beer

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• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, America, Bipolar

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• I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

  Seal

  Believe, Reflection, I Believe

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• Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

  Jacques Monod

  Fate, Science, Men

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• Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own parents.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Order, Long

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.130, Basic Books

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• When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Healing, Hands, Perspective

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• I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Culture

  "Walking Away From the Money at Microsoft" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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