Our Society Quotes - Page 38

• Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as “militant.” The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Political, Enemy, Esp

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• Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

  Peter Singer

  Clothes, People, House

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.121, OUP Oxford

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• You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Organization, People, Doe

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• It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

  Victor Saul Navasky

  Arena, Deficit, Approach

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• It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.

  Dave Matthews

  Country, Race, Talking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will always get lots of people thinking you're a jerk. But there are people who appreciate total honesty and questioning of the conformities in our society, and I'm heroic to those people. And I should be. It's an indictment of the rest of society who doesn't get that.

  Bill Maher

  Honesty, Thinking, Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Past, Looks

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Meaningful, Roots, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

  Jacob K. Javits

  People, Politician, Underrated

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• It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

  Germaine Greer

  Self, Evil, Conscious

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

  Helen Thomas

  Kings, President, Institutions

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• Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Goal, Feminism, Cracks

  Shulamith Firestone (2003). “The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution”, p.61, Macmillan

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• I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

  Neil Strauss

  Couple, Eye, Years

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.

  Martha Minow

  Fall, Race, Names

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Promise, Misery, Ends

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.

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• Fifa stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

  Sepp Blatter

  Play, Discipline, Fifa

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Mom, Children, Kids

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• Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?

  Aharon Katzir

  Challenges, Technological

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• We lost our way, our society lost our way.

  David Ervine

  Way, Lost

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• I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, People, Funny Bush

  George W. Bush during Economic Recovery and Job Creation Session in Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. August 13, 2002.

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• Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

  Christina Baldwin

  Emotional, Rights

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• Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!

  Reshma Saujani

  Encouraging, Girl, Teenage

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

  Charlize Theron

  Mother, Complicated, Seeing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

  Dustin Clare

  Thinking, Organization, White

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