Our Society Quotes - Page 39

• Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Letting Go, Art, Real

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• The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

  William J. Clinton

  Art, Unique, Other Cultures

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• It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.

  Bruce Schneier

  War, Fighting, Interesting

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• As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Country, People, Shelter

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• Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

  Otto Scharmer

  Moving, Ego, Awareness

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• It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

  Gore Vidal

  Character, Thinking, Race

  Gore Vidal (1992). “Screening history”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.

  Kate Burridge

  Teacher, Order, People

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• The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.

  Andrew Weil

  Lying, Ego, Making Love

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• I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Two, Radio, Abiding

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

  Nelson Mandela

  White, Political, Fundamentals

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Joy, Soul, Our Love

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• Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Hatred, Division, Fringe

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The family is the corner stone of our society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Stones, Corners

  Howard University Commencement Address, delivered 4 June 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.

  Wendy McElroy

  Powerful, Believe, Class

  "The Great Lie" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2003.

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• To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

  Sol Stern

  Children, African American, Needs

  Sol Stern (2003). “Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice”

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• I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

  Jacque Fresco

  Today, Type

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• Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system in Congress will change only when the American people change their beliefs about the proper role of government in our society. Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs. We must reject unlimited government and reassert the constitutional rule of law if we hope to halt the spending orgy.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Law, Creating

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• When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

  Alan Moore

  Names, Evil, Done

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• I would that the healing power of Christ might spread over the earth and be diffused through our society and into our homes, that it might cure men's hearts of the evil and adverse elements of greed and hate and conflict. I believe it could happen. I believe it must happen. If the lamb is to lie down with the lion, then peace must overcome conflict, healing must mend injury.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

  Alan Kay

  Nerd, Slides, Used

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• In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.

  Peter Lynch

  Men, Investing, Finance

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

  Andrew Goodman

  Black, Warning, Irritated

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• We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.

  Steven Biko

  Men, Land, People

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• Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

  Matt Taibbi

  Poverty, Population, Loser

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.28, Spiegel & Grau

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• We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.

  Jacque Fresco

  Teaching, Men, Wisest Man

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