Our Society Quotes - Page 33

• As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Wish, Language

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• If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Evil, Choices, Television

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• Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, America, Violence

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• The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

  Lois Gibbs

  Government, Decision, Stories

  Lois Marie Gibbs, Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes (Arlington, Va.) (1995). “Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy”, p.1, South End Press

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• The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward.

  Israel Shamir

  Christian, Years, Long

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• In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves!

  Jules Dervaes

  Essentials, World, Growing

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• [Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth, and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable child care so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and in our society.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Kings, Children

  "Pelosi Remarks at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington Rally". pelosi.house.gov. August 26, 2013.

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• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  Oleg Cassini

  Want

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• I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

  Eli Roth

  Men, Thinking, Brave Face

  "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.

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• We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Judging, Want, Talent

  "Melissa Etheridge: Mission Possible" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.

  Joe Rogan

  Clothes, Connections, Behaviour

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• Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Helping Others, People

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Adults, Cinema, Spheres

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• We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Eight, Black

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Mind, Invisible

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Revolution, Easier, Outburst

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Our society has become an employee society.

  Peter Drucker

  Employee

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.10, Routledge

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• I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Giving, Political, Hammers

  "Commencement address, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts". June 8, 1958.

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• There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Happiness, People, Not Happy

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• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Sacred

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• Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

  Marya Mannes

  Men, Fellowship, Reason

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

  Gilbert Highet

  Believe, Ignorance, Corruption

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

  Tony Blair

  People, Together, Essentials

  "Interview: Tony Blair, on his faith and religious ideology". Interview with John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 29, 2010.

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• As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

  Murray Kempton

  Names, Political, Enemy

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Confused, Society, Goodwill

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