Our Society Quotes - Page 4

• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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• I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Europe, World

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

  Nancy Mairs

  Law, Use, Reason

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Caring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

  Masiela Lusha

  Passion, Our World, Our Generation

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• History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Sick, Process Of Change, Today

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• Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Desire, Needs, Helping

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• Art has to be reflective of our society.

  David Zayas

  Art

  "Exclusive: David Zayas & Olga Merediz Talk FX's 'Saint George' and Danny Trejo". Interview with Jesus Trivino, www.latina.com. April 3, 2014.

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• How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

  Bill Nye

  Resistance, Inquiry, Ideological

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.17, St. Martin's Press

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• I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

  Raven-Symone

  Thinking, Rude, Disrespectful

  "INTERVIEW: Raven-Symoné Gets Into the Sister Act". Interview with Iris Wiener, www.theatermania.com. Aprшд 9, 2012.

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• Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when its that way.

  Megyn Price

  Daughter, Running, Race

  "Rules Of Engagement‘s Megyn Price Is A Triathlete". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

  Dan Payne

  Perception, Mail, Professors

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• The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.

  Bob Schwartz

  Agreement, Doe, Dieting

  Bob Schwartz (1982). “Diets don't work”, Breakthru Publishing

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• It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Equality, Done, Eras

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• It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

  Arianna Huffington

  Responsibility, Self, World

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• Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Class, Parent, Blame

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Roles, Fundamentals, Care

  "TED 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.

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• My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

  Orlan

  Jobs, Artist, Media

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh.

  Orlan

  Religious, Political, Body

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

  Peter Thiel

  College, Skills, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

  Michio Kaku

  Paris, Media, Visibility

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 09, 2009.

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• Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.

  Anna Quindlen

  Taken, Men, Law

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• ... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.

  Ruth Benedict

  Lonely, Peace, War

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• The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society: navigation before the eighteenth century, manufacture thereafter; and in our age I believe the liberation of personality. Whatever the part which scientists like to act, or for that matter which painters like to dress, science shares the aims of our society just as art does.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Believe, Personality

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “The Common Sense of Science”, p.99, Faber & Faber

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• In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Character, Innovation, Important

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.1

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